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

[Mario Limonciello]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 16:49, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

Depending on the third-party vendor that worked on the BIOS, they may
have an additional method for modifying the wireless and another tool
in addition to the standard one used on a majority of the machines.
That method is not necessarily documented.

-- 
Mario Limonciello
superm1@xxxxxxxxx
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