Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] platform: x86: dell-rbtn: Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver

[Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 29 April 2015 18:28:40 Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 April 2015 15:57:58 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 15:08:40 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 12:30:32 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 11:51:04 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > > This is an ACPI driver for Dell laptops which receive HW switch events.
> > > > > It exports rfkill device dell-rbtn which provide correct hard rfkill state.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Alex Hung added code for supporting Dell laptops which have toggle button
> > > > > instead HW slider switch. On these laptops toggle button event is reported
> > > > > by new input device (instead rfkill) as they do not have hw radio switch.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It looks like those are two different functions (rfkill, input device), but
> > > > > Dell BIOS exports them via same ACPI device and uses same ACPI functions.
> > > > > So code is in one kernel driver.
> > > > 
> > > > I made a patch some time ago that I've just adapted. It allows to
> > > > prefer RBTN_SLIDER over RBTN_TOGGLE. The main reason why I'd like to
> > > > have the hardware switch is that the BIOS doesn't alter the soft state
> > > > of the devices. This comes in handy when the function key controls
> > > > multiple radio devices.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Now I'm thinking... is't this bug in wifi kernel driver (which exports
> > > phy rfkill)? Or problem somewhere else (userspace or kernel)?
> > 
> > What is the presumed bug you are referring to? The fact that the soft state
> > doesn't change?
> 
> Can you remind me whats the problem on your laptop?

CRBT returns 0 (so RBTN_TOGGLE), but by default my laptop acts as if
it returned 2 or 3, so we have to call ARBT.

As said before, there's no way to know when a platform whose CRBT
method returns 0 or 1 also has the hardware switch, so to be sure that
all the platforms have working function keys, some of them (such as
mine) have to give up on the hardware switch.