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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
