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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=kTQpTkCF6-DE+LdNLH_aki9bD9NPF0L2qRr=Q@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:49:05 -0500 From: Mario Limonciello <superm1@...ntu.com> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> Cc: Keng-Yu Lin <keng-yu.lin@...onical.com>, len.brown@...el.com, alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter Hi Matthew: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 08:35, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:30:57AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > > > In this specific scenario that Ken Yu submitted this patch for, the > > firmware will return the same return codes for the SMI's as a functional > > machine will. Machines affected by this will fail to recover after rfkill > > is toggled twice. The symptom will be that the soft block always appears > > set to the same setting with continued keypresses. > > During the prototype phase this option is quite useful to help debug the > > problem it addresses. > > Is the kernel able to unblock it under those circumstances? Manually running rfkill unblock will unblock it in this broken firmware scenario in question. -- Mario Limonciello superm1@...il.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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