Finish fixing dell-laptop rfkill
Tim Gardner
tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Oct 14 21:10:23 UTC 2009
Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Over the weekend i've been trying to help follow up with the still broken
> RFKILL for some Dell laptops before Kernel Freeze. I've developed a series
> of patches which probably aren't applicable upstream until Matthew finishes
> porting his input stuff to i8042, at which point they will most likely need
> reworking. They should be sufficient for Karmic however and have helped a
> bunch of the laptops i've seen still broken.
>
> I've verified the correct behavior now on the following laptops:
>
> - Studio 1537
> - Latitude D630
> - Mini 9
> - Mini 10
> - Mini 10v
> - Mini 12
> - Inspiron 1545
> - Studio XPS 1340
> - Latitude 2100
>
> Several laptops were verified in the bug, one regression found (BIOS bug)
> which a blacklist has been added for.
>
> For those not aware, this is bug
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/430809 .
>
> ---
>
> The following changes since commit 091b3d9ceceedbe4895b6ad950201085b85dc4af:
> Tim Gardner (1):
> UBUNTU: Ubuntu-2.6.31-14.46
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/mariol/ubuntu-karmic master
>
> Mario Limonciello (2):
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: dell-laptop: Store the HW switch status internally
> rather than requerying every time
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: dell-laptop: Blacklist machines not supporting
> dell-laptop
>
> drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 119
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
>
>
>
applied with some additional comments in the code. Lemme know if I've
mis-stated anything. I'll likely upload later this evening after some
testing. Last time, I promise :)
rtg
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