On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 12:15 AM Greenman, Gregory <gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'll try to explain, the problem here is not technical. After some > internal checks, it appears that we (wifi driver) aren't allowed to > decide if 6E should be enabled or not. Because of the legal restrictions, > OEM should make this decision and enable/disable 6E in the BIOS. This > commit only gets the value from the BIOS and configures the firmware > accordingly. So, unfortunately, legal restriction is the reason we cannot > revert/overwrite 6E enablement... > Thank you Gregory, I've been reading between the lines, and this is pretty much what I expected you to say. So in the past when OEMs/systems manufacturers have been irresponsible/inept like this we have implemented flags to force ignore the values coming out of the bios. As it's now obvious that the problem here is a legal/regulatory issue, I'd hope that having a force flag would be acceptable from a that perspective. I'm no lawyer, but I expect once a user decides to explicitly set a force flag to ignore the bios values I'd suspect the responsibility would shift from the manufacturers and back onto the user. Would such a patch be theoretically acceptable? If so I'll write up a patch to do this and submit it next week hopefully.
