Re: [RFT v9] rfkill: rewrite

[Will Keaney <keaneyw@gmail.com>]

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Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 13:59 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>
>   
>>> Please leave rfkill-input available as a module, at least until the bug
>>> I reported in my previous e-mail 'Soft Lockup With rfkill_input and
>>> thinkpad_acpi' is resolved.  Otherwise it will render Thinkpads, and
>>> possibly other systems, unusable with rfkill enabled.
>>>       
>> The problem gets fixed where the problem is at...  if the actual root
>> cause is in the rfkill rewrite, then maybe Johannes should take a look.
>>     
>
> We don't even know yet whether the bug is present after the rewrite!
>
>   
>> If the actual root cause is a bug in thinkpad-acpi, then it shouldn't
>> block the rfkill rewrite, but should be fixed in thinkpad-acpi.
>>     
>
> Unfortunately thinkpad-acpi hasn't been ported yet in my rewrite, so we
> can't know. I've poked hmh, but if he doesn't respond soon I'll do a
> crude port and ask Will to test it.
>
> johannes
>   
OK. For what it's worth, the bug is still present in
2.6.30-rc5-wl-23297-gbf2c6a3 as pulled from wireless-testing about an
hour ago.

Will Keaney


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