From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>,
"platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org"
<platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: rfkill blacklist Dell XPS 13z, 15z
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:19:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514211959.GA9394@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB16659.6040704@dell.com>
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:08:57PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>
> On 05/14/2012 02:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >What does "Improper BIOS interaction" mean? What's the proper BIOS interaction?
> These platforms are not obeying the smbios interface specs for turning on and off radios. It's not currently expected that the interaction will improve during the lifetime of these platforms. If it does, then this can be adjusted to only apply to the BIOS versions before the fix.
Ok, pretty bored of this at this point. If the bios interface is
unreliable then I'll just remove the rfkill support. I'm not going to
continue adding machines to a blacklist some time after users find
things are broken.
Is this just as broken under Windows?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-14 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-14 19:27 [PATCH] dell-laptop: rfkill blacklist Dell XPS 13z, 15z Kamal Mostafa
2012-05-14 19:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-14 20:00 ` Kamal Mostafa
2012-05-14 20:08 ` Mario Limonciello
2012-05-14 21:19 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-05-14 21:21 ` Mario Limonciello
2012-05-14 21:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-14 21:48 ` Mario Limonciello
2012-05-14 21:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-14 22:10 ` Jean-Louis Dupond
2012-05-15 15:05 ` Martin Mokrejs
2012-05-14 20:02 ` Martin Mokrejs
2012-05-14 20:03 ` [PATCH v2] dell-laptop: rfkill blacklist Dell XPS 13z, 15 Kamal Mostafa
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