linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: add Dell Vostro 1520 to blacklist.

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Date:	Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:56:32 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Ayan George <ayan.george@...onical.com>
Cc:	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: add Dell Vostro 1520 to blacklist.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:47:54PM -0500, Ayan George wrote:
> The dell-laptop module erroneously hard-blocks the wireless interface on
> the Dell Vostro 1520.
> 
> All functionality (backlight, volume, physical wireless switch, &c)
> is there without the dell-laptop module so this blacklists the
> Dell Vostro 1520.
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701259
> Signed-off-by: Ayan George <ayan.george@...onical.com>
> Cc: <stable@...nel.org>

I'd like to try to work out what's actually going on here first. Do we 
have any feedback from Dell on whether this is expected to work?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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