From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753663Ab0JGVth (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:49:37 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:57248 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751354Ab0JGVtg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:49:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:49:27 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Mario Limonciello Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , 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: <20101007214927.GA2292@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20101007133529.GA21782@srcf.ucam.org> <20101007205049.GB32726@srcf.ucam.org> <20101007213027.GA18628@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20101007213754.GA1896@srcf.ucam.org> <20101007214212.GA2010@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 04:45:22PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > Matthew: > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 16:42, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > 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? > > 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. Ok, so let's approach this differently. What is it that results in this issue not affecting Windows? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org