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 22:28:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514212842.GA9561@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB1774D.4080106@dell.com>
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@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-14 21:28 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
2012-05-14 21:21 ` Mario Limonciello
2012-05-14 21:28 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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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