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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/video.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c index debd30917010..26eb70c8f518 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c @@ -2110,7 +2110,8 @@ static int __init intel_opregion_present(void) int acpi_video_register(void) { - int result = 0; + int ret; + if (register_count) { /* * if the function of acpi_video_register is already called, @@ -2122,9 +2123,9 @@ int acpi_video_register(void) mutex_init(&video_list_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&video_bus_head); - result = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_video_bus); - if (result < 0) - return -ENODEV; + ret = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_video_bus); + if (ret) + return ret; /* * When the acpi_video_bus is loaded successfully, increase @@ -2176,6 +2177,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_unregister_backlight); static int __init acpi_video_init(void) { + /* + * Let the module load even if ACPI is disabled (e.g. due to + * a broken BIOS) so that i915.ko can still be loaded on such + * old systems without an AcpiOpRegion. + * + * acpi_video_register() will report -ENODEV later as well due + * to acpi_disabled when i915.ko tries to register itself afterwards. + */ + if (acpi_disabled) + return 0; + dmi_check_system(video_dmi_table); if (intel_opregion_present()) |