From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932672Ab0JGNfi (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:35:38 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:60227 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760534Ab0JGNfh (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:35:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:35:29 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Mario Limonciello Cc: Keng-Yu Lin , len.brown@intel.com, alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter Message-ID: <20101007133529.GA21782@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1286422207-14248-1-git-send-email-keng-yu.lin@canonical.com> <20101007111510.GA19624@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:30:57AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > In this specific scenario that Ken Yu submitted this patch for, the > firmware will return the same return codes for the SMI's as a functional > machine will. Machines affected by this will fail to recover after rfkill > is toggled twice. The symptom will be that the soft block always appears > set to the same setting with continued keypresses. > During the prototype phase this option is quite useful to help debug the > problem it addresses. Is the kernel able to unblock it under those circumstances? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org