From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752370Ab0JGViG (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:38:06 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:53434 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750972Ab0JGViE (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:38:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:37:54 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Mario Limonciello , Keng-Yu Lin , len.brown@intel.com, alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter Message-ID: <20101007213754.GA1896@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1286422207-14248-1-git-send-email-keng-yu.lin@canonical.com> <20101007111510.GA19624@srcf.ucam.org> <20101007133529.GA21782@srcf.ucam.org> <20101007205049.GB32726@srcf.ucam.org> <20101007213027.GA18628@core.coreip.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101007213027.GA18628@core.coreip.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:30:28PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > We have this strategy for bunch of input stuff (force release, keymap) > and I think it works better than dding more and more DMI quirks into > kernel itself. It's limited to Dell hardware, so I think keeping a static list in the Dell laptop driver is reasonable. All we need is a list of hardware, and I'd really hope that Dell know which BIOS versions contain this code! -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org