Re: [PATCH 3/8] sony-laptop: ignore hard switch rfkill events (SPIC)

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:00:38PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:46:54PM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:06:18AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Do you possibly want to catch these and make sure the kernel rfkill 
> > > state matches the hardware?
> > 
> > hmmmm, to be honest I'm not entirely sure what the actual problem is.
> > Maybe it's just a timing issue that is made better by avoiding the
> > input/acpi event generation. For now drop this patch (there is a
> > different workaround using the mask parameter).
> 
> Delivering it to userspace can be racy - rfkill-input will try to toggle 
> the state as well. So I think this is the right thing to do, but you 
> might also want to use it to check the current hardware state and update 
> the state of the rfkill device.

Ah, alright. This makes a lot of sense with what was seen on Thomas'
laptop.
Then if you are ok to keep this patch as is, I'll work on
matching/flipping the rfkill device state separately.

Thanks
-- 
mattia
:wq!