On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 02:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I don't think it's OK to cause a regression like this. Since this is > problem affects a specific known platform, the driver ought to > recognise it and disable itself automatically.
Indeed, while the Fedora bug upthread claims such a patch wouldn't be upstreamable, AFAIK it is not uncommon to have such quirks for broken firmware based upon DMI identifiers or similar. Ian.