linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: Fix radio LED detection

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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:21:50 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>
Cc:     Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...t42.net>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>, Harvey <harv@....de>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: Fix radio LED detection

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 7:29 AM, Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl> wrote:
>> > Radio LED detection method implemented in commit 4f62568c1fcf
>> > ("fujitsu-laptop: Support radio LED") turned out to be incorrect as it
>> > causes a radio LED to be erroneously detected on a Fujitsu Lifebook E751
>> > which has a slide switch (and thus no radio LED).  Use bit 17 of
>> > flags_supported (the value returned by method S000 of ACPI device
>> > FUJ02E3) to determine whether a radio LED is present as it seems to be a
>> > more reliable indicator, based on comparing DSDT tables of four Fujitsu
>> > Lifebook models (E744, E751, S7110, S8420).
>> >
>>
>> Pushed to my review and testing queue, thanks!
>
> I forgot that this patch can also be tagged with:
>
> Fixes: 4f62568c1fcf ("fujitsu-laptop: Support radio LED")

Added.

Do you consider this an important fix? We are at -rc7 now, I'm not
sure it's so critical. Tell me if you consider otherwise.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko