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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Keng-Yu Lin <keng-yu.lin@canonical.com>,
	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
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 21:50:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101007205049.GB32726@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=kTQpTkCF6-DE+LdNLH_aki9bD9NPF0L2qRr=Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:49:05PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hi Matthew:
> > Is the kernel able to unblock it under those circumstances?
> 
> Manually running rfkill unblock will unblock it in this broken
> firmware scenario in question.

So the issue is in the firmware's response to the keystroke? Ok. I'd 
rather have a DMI list of the broken machines than a module parameter.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-07 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-07  3:30 [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter Keng-Yu Lin
2010-10-07 11:15 ` Matthew Garrett
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTinus8SxbXt14qabXgpbFXF4U+uNoKA-=eDuOjmp@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-07 13:35     ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 20:49       ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 20:50         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-10-07 20:53           ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:24             ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:30             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-07 21:33               ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:37               ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:41                 ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:42                   ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:45                     ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:49                       ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:52                         ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:46                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-07 21:49                   ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:50                   ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-07 21:57                     ` Mario Limonciello
2010-10-07 21:58                     ` Dmitry Torokhov

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