Yeah, I came across that need in an attempt to fix an issue in thinkpad-acpi
which will be fixed in another way (separate modules, or separate platform
devices/platform drivers in the same module). I must have been
sleep-deprieved and in a weird mind state of sorts (and not in a nice way)
to come up with it.
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"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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