Re: [PATCH] sony-laptop: support rfkill via ACPI interfaces

Matthew Garrett
2009-03-19T21:44:43Z

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:34:28PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> HI Matthew,
>
> On Do, 19 Mär 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Enable events on all Vaio's with the new-style ACPI interface, and use
> > it to support rfkill where available.
>
> Thanks for these patches, do they enable wwan activation on Vaio Z
> series, too?

I expect so.

> Currently the stock kernel sony-laptop with all patches floating around
> on lkml did not make the wwan interface show up from the turned off
> state. The only way to do that is using the 0.6 version for Vaio Z from
> http://www.basyskom.org/~eva/log_installation_vaio_z21vnx.html

Sigh. I could have saved some amount of time if these patches had
actually been sent to the mailing list. They're functionally equivalent,
except mine integrate with the rfkill class correctly and check whether
the hardware is present before creating the rfkill device.

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