Re: [PATCH 0/3] Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver

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

On Wednesday 24 December 2014 17:13:45 Alex Hung wrote:
> I uploaded acpidump files [1] (except for XPS 13 which is not
> available), and this should help clarify what has been tested.
> 
> Does Inspirion 5721 does not have either DELLABCE or DELRBTN. It is
> used for comparison. My apologies that I did not point this out in
> previous email.
> 
> When calling ARBT(1), BIOS will no longer issue scancode and will not
> pull low hardware pin "W_DISABLE#" on mini card. This essentially
> gives all wireless control to OS. This is likely the answer to
> Microsoft's Windows Certification Program
> System.Client.RadioManagement.HardwareButton [2] as below:
> 
> =============================================
> If a PC has a physical (hardware) button switch on a PC that turns
> wireless radios on and off, it must be software controllable and
> interact appropriately with the Radio Management UI
> =============================================
> 
> Dell's BIOS does issue a notify(RBTN, 0x80). This is done purposely to
> re-enumerate the state of radio switch which may be changed when
> system is in S3 or S4. I think this should not occur when CRBT returns
> 0 or 1 (for hotkey that cannot be changed during S3 or S4), but that's
> how it is done currently.

The notification is sent on my XPS13 (CRBT returns 0), toggling the WiFi
state on resume.

> dell-wireless does not handle this notification in S3 or S4 for
> following reasons:
> 
> 1. dell-wireless does not handle slider (i.e. CRBT = 2 or 3). Device
> drivers should read the hardware pin, "W_DISABLE#" on mini spec and
> change hard block accordingly. This pin is commonly used by OEM today.
> 
> 2. it is not possible to distinguish the notification (0x80) from
> hotkey press or S3/S4. I also concerned this may mis-trigger state
> change when resuming from S3 or S4, but it does not. Does any know how
> to ignore this notification during resume only?
> 
> dell-rbtn can use this notification + method (GRBT) [2] to solve the
> problem that slider state.

Unfortunately this won't solve the problem for me. After ARBT is called
with 1 as parameter, it seems that GRBT always returns 1.

I don't know how to ignore the notification on resume, if not through
a flag set by a PM callback.

Given that all the tested laptops reported a keypress on the i8042
bus, isn't it better to rely on that instead?

> [1] http://people.canonical.com/~alexhung/dell-acpidump/
> [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj128256.aspx
> [3] It seems GRBT may not always be implemented...
> 
> I'd love to do more tests and share the results on any particular
> systems, but I may need some more detailed instructions.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 3:16 AM, Gabriele Mazzotta
> <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 22 December 2014 15:27:57 Alex Hung wrote:
> >> = Testing =
> >>
> >> I tested six Dell systems for two sets of patches for dell radio
> >> button - two system with radio slider and four with radio hotkey.
> >> There are also two systems with working ARBT method.
> >>
> >> == Basic Information ==
> >> Based OS: Ubuntu 14.10 (kernel 3.16 [1]) and kernel 3.18 [2]
> >>
> >> Patches:
> >> 1. dell-wireless v3 = original v2 + Gabriele's suggestion [3]
> >> 2. dell-rbtn [4]
> >>
> >> Method:
> >> 1. run "rfkill list" and press hotkey / toggle slider during runtime
> >> 2. run "rfkill list" and toggle slider during S3
> >>
> >> == Results ==
> >>
> >> I summarized the tests in Google sheet as below. Please advise if
> >> anyone has problem reading it.
> >>
> >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1voffS6dNglwAExSGh3UmG__UAO2qfZ829CkJLPo06aI/edit?usp=sharing
> >>
> >> PS. The document will stay as long as possible for future references.
> >>
> >> == Summary ==
> >>
> >> 1. I did not observed a duplicated event. However, keycode 240
> >> (unknown) is generated on many UUT. It is not issued by dell-laptop or
> >> del-wmi. I am suspecting it is the other event Pali observes but it
> >> can be the result of different distro.
> >>
> >> 2. Some system issues scancode "0xe0 0x73 0xe0 0xf3". It can also be
> >> used toggle wireless state but this can also be distro-dependent. This
> >> scancode does nothing on Ubuntu 14.10.
> >>
> >> 2. There are two systems with working ARBT (XPS 13 9333 and Inspiron
> >> 7447). Calling ARBT(1) changes BIOS behaviours, and this matches to
> >> Dell's document. We should include it in the patch for maximum
> >> capability.
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] dell-wireless is only tested 3.16.
> >> [2] dell-rbtn is tested on 3.16 and 3.18, but no differences are observed.
> >> [3] http://people.canonical.com/~alexhung/dell-wireless/
> >> [4] http://people.canonical.com/~alexhung/dell-rbtn/
> >
> > I've just tried the last revision of dell-wireless and noticed that a
> > notification (0x80) is sent to DELLABCE after a transition from S3 to
> > S0, causing dell-wireless to send KEY_RFKILL. This shouldn't happen.
> > Same thing for transitions from S4 to S0.
> >
> > Gabriele
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