Merged parts of a patch from Takashi Iwai for an older version of the module.

This patch was adapted and tested by Ricardo Cerqueira.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>