From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
To: carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk
Cc: aceracpi@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] acer-wmi: don't bother loading on unsupported systems
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:40:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904060940.16889.jarod@redhat.com> (raw)
Its both a waste of system resources to load this driver on unsupported
systems (which happens often, due to the *Acer* dmi modalias wildcard),
and actually causes problems -- we wind up with a sysfs rfkill entry
that is always disabled, which throws things like NetworkManager for a
loop, causing it to think your wireless card isn't available, even
though the *real* rfkill entry for the card says it is. This is
triggering on multiple Acer Aspire One's here in the office, like so:
NetworkManager: <info> starting...
NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_generic_enable_loopback(): error -17 returned from rtnl_addr_add():#012Sucess#012
NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_acer_wmi_rfkill_acer_wireless_wlan
NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_423a_rfkill_5350AGN_wlan
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169')
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1e_68_8a_a1_f8
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'iwlagn')
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_16_eb_04_31_ea
NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the supplicant...
NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the system settings daemon...
NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant manager state: down -> idle
So have acer-wmi just bail on unsupported systems -- includes only my
particular model of the Aspire One atm, but a larger list of unsupported
systems can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware
This might well become unnecessary once the WMI sysfs interface mentioned in
acer-wmi.c exists and the wild-card dmi modalias is gone, but for now... I
prefer to have working wireless, and this isn't exactly an obvious root
cause. I lack the hardware to further extend the blacklist, but doing so is
trivial. Whether or not loading acer-wmi actually negatively impacts
machines other than the AAO is unknown at this time.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
---
drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
index a6a42e8..eda7eea 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
@@ -355,6 +355,25 @@ static struct dmi_system_id acer_quirks[] = {
{}
};
+static int __init acer_wmi_unsupported_callback(const struct dmi_system_id *id)
+{
+ printk(ACER_INFO "%s not supported by Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras\n",
+ id->ident);
+ return 1;
+}
+
+static const struct dmi_system_id __initdata acer_wmi_unsupported[] = {
+ {
+ .callback = acer_wmi_unsupported_callback,
+ .ident = "Acer Aspire One",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Acer"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "AOA110"),
+ },
+ },
+ {}
+};
+
/* Find which quirks are needed for a particular vendor/ model pair */
static void find_quirks(void)
{
@@ -1252,6 +1271,10 @@ static int __init acer_wmi_init(void)
{
int err;
+ /* Check for unsupported systems and bail */
+ if (dmi_check_system(acer_wmi_unsupported))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
printk(ACER_INFO "Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras\n");
find_quirks();
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com
next reply other threads:[~2009-04-06 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-06 13:40 Jarod Wilson [this message]
2009-04-06 19:53 ` [PATCH] acer-wmi: don't bother loading on unsupported systems Carlos Corbacho
2009-04-06 20:04 ` Jarod Wilson
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