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Date:	Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:45:22 -0500
From:	Mario Limonciello <superm1@...ntu.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Keng-Yu Lin <keng-yu.lin@...onical.com>, len.brown@...el.com,
	alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter

Matthew:

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 16:42, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> 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@...f.ucam.org
>

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.


-- 
Mario Limonciello
superm1@...il.com
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