The Kernel knows. But how ? Did the acpi make a secret dead drop ?

[Valentin Vidic]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 06:58:09PM +0530, Jay Aurabind wrote:
> I do not have any /dev/i2c* listings. Besides, these are the only modules
> with i2c in their names:

If not i2c than it could be this load path:

modules.alias:alias acpi*:HPQ6007:* hp_accel
modules.alias:alias acpi*:HPQ6000:* hp_accel
modules.alias:alias acpi*:HPQ0004:* hp_accel
modules.dep:kernel/drivers/platform/x86/hp_accel.ko: kernel/drivers/misc/lis3lv02d/lis3lv02d.ko kernel/drivers/input/input-polldev.ko

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Valentin