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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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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