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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:46:28PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:37:54PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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!
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately this kind of crap tends to flow from one BIOS version to
> another.. How many DMI entries do we know about so far? Did Dell issue
> firmware updates correcting the issue so new boxes will not exhibit the
> problem?

Pushing this out to userspace doesn't help. If it's sufficiently 
prevelant that it's impossible to have a comprehensive list, then a 
module option makes it too easy for people to just post the fix on a 
forum somewhere and never actually get it upstream.

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