From: Sebastian Poehn <sebastian.poehn@googlemail.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com
Subject: [BUG] brcmsmac: Invalid killswitch handling
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:51:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1345798314.1478.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
I had a discussion with Matthew Garrett about handling of a wifi
killswitch on a Dell laptop.
Some (rfkill) code was removed from platform/dell-laptop. On my machine
a bug now occurs which is caused by brcmsmac in the view of Matthew.
So is this a bug, or do you have no killsitch handling, so far?
Bug description:
> physical switch is OFF
> rfkill state is ON
> => Laptop hangs on boot (maybe because a physical ascent device is
> used by network subsystem)
>
> physical switch is OFF
> rfkill state is OFF
> => Activate interface in Gnome Connection Manager => System hang
>
> test setup:
> Dell Vostro 3300
> Broadcom 4313 Wifi
> Kernel 3.5.[0-2] & 3.6
> Fedora 17
What Matthew wrote to me:
> > With the old dell-laptop code included everything was fine with
> > brcmsmac. So either generic platform code does not handle the switch
> > correct or there is no handling at all?
>
> brcmsmac is broken. I suspect it was happily claiming to be
> unblocked,
> but was ignored because dell-laptop claimed to be blocked.
Full discussion thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/23/234
next reply other threads:[~2012-08-24 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-24 8:51 Sebastian Poehn [this message]
2012-08-24 10:59 ` [BUG] brcmsmac: Invalid killswitch handling Arend van Spriel
2012-08-24 17:39 ` Sebastian Poehn
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