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

[Jay Aurabind]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 at 19:37, Valentin Vidic <Valentin.Vidic at carnet.hr>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
Interesting observation! So I just checked, the ACPI tables does have the
string HPQ6000 in it!
And I found hp_accel creates an acpi driver which in turn says it
needs lis3lv02d


So there are no dead drops! :P This info answers my question. Thank you so
much for your help Valentin!

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