From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sony laptop: Some Sony Vaia laptops do not enable wwan power by default.
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:29:16 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110712222914.GA3016@kamineko.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110712160156.GA8388@srcf.ucam.org>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:01:56PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 09:55:38AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> > Ubuntu has been carrying this patch for a couple of years because I
> > keep forgetting to upstream it. Does anyone think it still makes
> > sense, or should setting WWAN power be done in user space ?
>
> Userspace, but also somebody needs to figure out how to identify whether
> old-style Vaios support each of these features and expose them as proper
> rfkill devices.
the problem with that has always been that we don't know how to probe
the SPIC device. We also don't know how to read the state of the rfkill
switch. I imagine we could guess but I'm not sure how useful that is.
--
mattia
:wq!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-12 15:55 [PATCH] Sony laptop: Some Sony Vaia laptops do not enable wwan power by default Tim Gardner
2011-07-12 16:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-07-12 22:29 ` Mattia Dongili [this message]
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2009-04-22 18:53 Tim Gardner
2009-04-22 19:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-22 20:07 ` Tim Gardner
2009-04-22 20:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-23 8:50 ` Mattia Dongili
2009-04-23 9:04 ` Mattia Dongili
2009-04-23 16:41 ` Tim Gardner
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