Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Oct 07 2010 - 17:49:41 EST


On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 04:45:22PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Matthew:
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 16:42, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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