From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Ayan George <ayan.george@canonical.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: add Dell Vostro 1520 to blacklist.
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:56:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110211205632.GA12887@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D55A07A.7050608@canonical.com>
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:47:54PM -0500, Ayan George wrote:
> The dell-laptop module erroneously hard-blocks the wireless interface on
> the Dell Vostro 1520.
>
> All functionality (backlight, volume, physical wireless switch, &c)
> is there without the dell-laptop module so this blacklists the
> Dell Vostro 1520.
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701259
> Signed-off-by: Ayan George <ayan.george@canonical.com>
> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
I'd like to try to work out what's actually going on here first. Do we
have any feedback from Dell on whether this is expected to work?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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2011-02-11 20:47 [PATCH] dell-laptop: add Dell Vostro 1520 to blacklist Ayan George
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