Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter

[Mario Limonciello]

Matthew:

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 16:42, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 04:41:12PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>
>> All Dell laptops are /supposed/ to adhere to the specification in
>> question.  Unfortunately, not all machines are tested with Linux
>> during their development and on the OS they ship with that
>> functionality isn't always used in that specific way for rfkill.
>
> I don't understand this. You know which code is broken - surely you're
> able to determine which products shipped with BIOSes derived from the
> broken code?
>
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

Not all product's BIOS are developed in-house.  The ones that are, yes
it quite possible to identify.  Matter of fact, this issue tends to
not exist on the in-house developed BIOS codebase.


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Mario Limonciello
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