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Message-ID: <20120514212842.GA9561@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:28:42 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@...l.com>
Cc: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>,
"platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org"
<platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: rfkill blacklist Dell XPS 13z, 15z
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:21:17PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> The outliers of Inspiron and XPS don't seem to follow the interface as
> explicitly. It is not broken on Windows. I don't have an
> understanding why it's not, but conjecture that it's a different
> interface being used on these that I don't have information on yet.
If we're using a different interface to Windows then we're still doing
it wrong. I'll take patches that port us to the interface that's
actually being used, but I won't take patches that just try to cover up
a broken interface that the vendor doesn't test.
> You would be better to only match on Latitude and Vostro and anything
> else that people want to opt in via a paramater than to remove the
> interface entirely IMO.
If Windows uses this interface on Latitude and Vostro then I'll do that,
but otherwise no.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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