[PATCH] DMI patch for broken Dell laptop

This adds DMI recognition for anohter broken Dell laptop BIOS (BIOS
version A12 on the Insiron 2500).

Reported by Mihnea-Costin Grigore <mgc8@totalnet.ro>.

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c b/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
index 5323df47722c012e36f53229b8603220d5b3f966..25bc3d7286ee97339ad7948e7e5495eeeb17d3bf 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
@@ -492,6 +492,11 @@ static __initdata struct dmi_blacklist dmi_blacklist[]={
                        MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "A04"),
                        MATCH(DMI_BIOS_DATE, "08/24/2000"), NO_MATCH
                        } },
+       { broken_apm_power, "Dell Inspiron 2500", {     /* Handle problems with APM on Inspiron 2500 */
+                       MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "Phoenix Technologies LTD"),
+                       MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "A12"),
+                       MATCH(DMI_BIOS_DATE, "02/04/2002"), NO_MATCH
+                       } },
        { set_realmode_power_off, "Award Software v4.60 PGMA", {        /* broken PM poweroff bios */
                        MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "Award Software International, Inc."),
                        MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "4.60 PGMA"),