[PATCH][RFC] Backlight addon for dell laptops

[Bill Nottingham]

Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar at mail.ru) said: 
> We still use this hack to load platform-specific ACPI modules:
> 
>     for f in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/*;do
>         basename="${f##*/}"
>         mod="${basename%%.*}"
>         case $mod in
>             *_acpi)
>                 dmidecode | grep -i Vendor | egrep -qi "${mod%%_acpi}" 
> 2>/dev/null || continue
>                 ;;
>         esac
>         message="Loading ACPI module $mod:"
>         modprobe $mod 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
> 
> something like this could probably be used in this case too.

Ick. Considering the kernel already has DMI code, you'd think it
could be exported somewhere.

Bill