[Bug 319825] Re: acer_wmi in Jaunty on Aspire One exposes non-functional (always disabled) rfkill device

[Carlos Corbacho]

@Andy

I had been meaning to do something like this patch for a while, though I
wasn't aware that the Aspire One's broken/ lack of WMI support broke
things so badly for NetworkManager. A few things though:

1. You may want to update the patch details though - the bug here is
that the Aspire One's ACPI-WMI interface just provides empty, useless
methods that do nothing - calling into them doesn't return any result,
but there's no way yet to distinguish it from a working Acer ACPI-WMI
interface without blacklisting, since it advertises all the GUIDs that
acer-wmi can drive.

2. Consider changing the DMI matching string - DMI can match on partial
strings, so matching on 'AOA1' should be enough to catch all the Aspire
One models with one DMI entry (in case there are more than just the 110
and 150 out there).

Other than that, if this patch is ready to go (and it looks good to me
so far), I can add my sign-off to it and we can get it merged upstream.

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acer_wmi in Jaunty on Aspire One exposes non-functional (always disabled) rfkill device
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319825
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