Re: PROBLEM: REGRESSION in drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c

[Mark Ellis <m@rkellis.com>]

On 19/11/12 02:30, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 11/18/2012 11:47 AM, Mark Ellis wrote:
>> 1. rfkill code removal causes hang
>>
>> 2. the rfkill code was removed from this driver in commit
>> 53039f222c548bfc119eea6df4dca2b57550e271 this results in my computer
>> hanging (dell n5050) if booting with the wireless (hardware) disabled.
>> downgrading this module to the version prior to this commit fixes the
>> issue.
>
> The commit you mention does not touch dell-laptop.c. The commit before
> that one doe, but it is only adding code. Digging the tree I found this
> one between kernel v3.4 and v3.5-rc1:
>
> commit a6c2390cd6d2083d27a2359658e08f2d3df375ac
> Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri Jun 1 12:46:56 2012 -0400
>
> dell-laptop: Remove rfkill code
>
> The interface just doesn't work on some machines, and Dell haven't been
> able to tell us either which machines those are or what we should be
> doing instead. This would be fine, except it results in userspace ending
> up confused and general sadness. So let's just rip it out for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>

You're right, I have no idea where I got that commit number from! Sorry 
about that.

> Actually, the behavior you describe and given you have a BCM4313 running
> with brcmsmac I may point out that this driver has an issue coming up
> with wireless disabled. This has been fixed in 3.7 kernel so you may
> want to try:
>
> commit 82d8eba358badb466a4e988ecabf0668a8d92e9c
> Author: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com>
> Date: Wed Sep 19 22:21:15 2012 +0200
>
> brcmsmac: don't start device when RfKill is engaged
>
> This patch fixes a bug when device is being started
> while RfKill switch is engaged, leading to hang
> due to partial initialization of hardware.
>
> Tested-by: <dragonn@op.pl>
> Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
>
> Maybe I should resubmit it to stable. Now there is an idea.

Yep that fixed it, thanks very much!

Mark