linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rfkill: update LEDs for all state changes

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Message-ID: <48D25311.1010805@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:09:37 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
CC:	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rfkill: update LEDs for all state changes

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
> Curious.  My patch to rfkill WAS tested, and it DOES fix the same issue you
> reported (hardware state changes to HARD_BLOCKED do not update the LEDs) in
> thinkpad-acpi.  It is also an "obviously correct" patch.
> 
> What this probably means is that b43 would need a little more rfkill surgery
> than what Matthew's patch already did.  I will look over Matthew's patch,
> but my guess is that Michael's comments about the need to add some extra
> code to b43 to actually synthesize the rfkill state from the separate HW and
> SW rfkill input lines are a strong hint of where the problem might be.

You must have missed my mail that shows the corrected patch for b43.
See http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122171448920267&w=2.

Larry


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