[PATCH] dell-laptop: defer dell_rfkill_update to worker thread

Mario Limonciello mario_limonciello at dell.com
Sun Apr 11 01:35:45 UTC 2010


Hi Chase:

On my D630, I no longer appear to see the OOP's ending up in dmesg after
a few switches on and off once I loaded your test kernel, so looks good
from my end.

Thanks,

On 04/09/2010 06:26 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If you have anything to note, especially bad behavior, please CC
> kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com as well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Chase
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Mario Limonciello
> <mario_limonciello at dell.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Dell-enablement list:
>>
>> Chase sent a patch to the kernel-team ML that helps to fix an OOPS that
>> has been happening when pressing the RFKILL SW with a lot of Dell HW.
>>
>> I've seen this happen on a variety of Dell HW myself, i'm sure that some
>> of you guys have too.  Could you guys help Chase to test it on any
>> hardware you've seen this happen?  I'll see if I can too.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On 04/09/2010 05:31 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Mario Limonciello
>>> <mario_limonciello at dell.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Great job with tracking this down!  I've seen this problem tons of times
>>>> myself, but was at a loss for why it was actually happening.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Since we're so close to shipping 10.04 it would be great if this could
>>> get some extra testing to ensure rfkill switches still work properly
>>> and without causing an OOPS. Do you have the time and ability to help
>>> with this? If so, you can find my test kernel at
>>> http://people.canonical.com/~cndougla/555261/.
>>>       

-- 
Mario Limonciello
*Dell | Linux Engineering*
mario_limonciello at dell.com

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