Re: [Bug 106031] Regression in 4.2.x: in airplane mode each time I open my laptop lid

["Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 22 October 2015 12:44:08 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
> On 22/10/2015 10:51, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >On Thursday 22 October 2015 10:26:47 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
> >>I'll see if I can find a batter way to deal with this problem,
> >>dell-laptop can detect the presence of an hardware switch.
> >
> >dell-rbtn.ko has acpi method CRBT which returns if notebook has hw switch or
> >toggle key.
> >
> >And rfkill implementation in dell-laptop.ko does not work correctly on
> >XPS machines. And because userspace implementation of smbios works fine,
> >I think that problem is in kernel driver rather in BIOS/firmware...
> 
> I was thinking about something such as the following, which should favor
> the hardware slider when available. This should work if my assumption is
> correct, that is the laptops with a working RBTN method are the ones
> having problems.
> 

Hm... wait! There are machines with HW slider and type is RBTN_TOGGLE?

I thought that all machines with HW slider has type RBTN_SLIDER and
others have RBTN_TOGGLE.

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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com