Comment 2 for bug 215706

I installed development Intrepid, and there (apparently introduced in addition to standard kernel) is acer_acpi.

Since this bug covers only the point of view of an ex-acer_acpi user, and since the problems I face with acer_acpi in intrepid are treated in another bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/248635), I consider this as "fix released", even if it seems to deny what was said in https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/190677.

Notice that the reported symptoms regarding wmi_acer (/sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi doesn't exist at all) are still here, but if acer_acpi has been explicitly imported, I imagine this is a know problem and it was faced this way by kernel maintainers. So it is probable that each user needing disabled wmi_acer features will just find the same old acer_acpi providing them (notice for example that solution suggested in http://www.slacky.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=212284 doesn't apply - or, better, is already applied - in the case of the Ubuntu Kernel, which config file reports "CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m").