Re: [PATCH 58/98] sony-laptop: Add rfkill support on new models

Len Brown
2009-04-03T16:52:48Z

<adding linux-acpi>

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:

> On Saturday 28 March 2009 05:31:33 you wrote:
> > From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
> >
> > Newer Vaios provide a full featured rfkill implementation via their
> > platform methods. Add support for enumerating the available devices and
> > providing rfkill access to them. Support for the physical kill switch is
> > added, with the devices moving into the HARD_BLOCKED state when toggled.
>
> Bug: If you insert the module with hardware kill switch enabled, it cannot be
> disabled any more, i.e. despite operating the hardware kill switch, devices
> will not become enabled.
>
> Any hint how I could debug this?
>
> regards,
> matthias

Matthew,
Should we proceed with patch 58 and fix later, or scrap patch 58?

thanks,
-Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center