From: Tim Gardner <timg@tpi.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: malattia@linux.it, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sony laptop: Some Sony Vaia laptops do not enable wwan power by default.
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:07:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EF78F2.7040203@tpi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090422195034.GA32375@srcf.ucam.org>
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:53:51PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Mattia,
>>
>> Does this patch makes sense for just the Vaio? I've had positive feedback from
>> the tester in the bug report.
>
> It'd make more sense to change the wwan power option to use rfkill. That
> way it'll be powered up at appropriate times.
>
The laptop model that doesn't power up wwan on cold boot contains a
"Sony Programmable IO Control Driver" ("VGN-" according to the DMI
info). It appears that only laptops with a "Sony Notebook Control
Driver" enjoy rfkill goodness. I don't know for sure if those models
fail to power up wwan when rfkill is disabled.
rtg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-22 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 18:53 [PATCH] Sony laptop: Some Sony Vaia laptops do not enable wwan power by default Tim Gardner
2009-04-22 19:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-22 20:07 ` Tim Gardner [this message]
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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2011-07-12 15:55 Tim Gardner
2011-07-12 16:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-07-12 22:29 ` Mattia Dongili
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