From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Keng-Yu Lin <keng-yu.lin@canonical.com>,
len.brown@intel.com, alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:35:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101007133529.GA21782@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinus8SxbXt14qabXgpbFXF4U+uNoKA-=eDuOjmp@mail.gmail.com>
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?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-07 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 3:30 [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter Keng-Yu Lin
2010-10-07 11:15 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <AANLkTinus8SxbXt14qabXgpbFXF4U+uNoKA-=eDuOjmp@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-07 13:35 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-10-07 20:49 ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 20:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 20:53 ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:30 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-07 21:33 ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:41 ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:45 ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:52 ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:46 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-07 21:49 ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:57 ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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