Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: rfkill blacklist Dell XPS 13z, 15z

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon May 14 2012 - 17:28:43 EST


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:21:17PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:

> The outliers of Inspiron and XPS don't seem to follow the interface as
> explicitly. It is not broken on Windows. I don't have an
> understanding why it's not, but conjecture that it's a different
> interface being used on these that I don't have information on yet.

If we're using a different interface to Windows then we're still doing
it wrong. I'll take patches that port us to the interface that's
actually being used, but I won't take patches that just try to cover up
a broken interface that the vendor doesn't test.

> You would be better to only match on Latitude and Vostro and anything
> else that people want to opt in via a paramater than to remove the
> interface entirely IMO.

If Windows uses this interface on Latitude and Vostro then I'll do that,
but otherwise no.
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