[Lucid SRU] UBUNTU: SAUCE: dell-laptop: fire SMI when toggling hardware killswitch (revised)
Chase Douglas
chase.douglas at canonical.com
Thu Jun 10 12:25:11 UTC 2010
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:37 +0800, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
> Revised: wrap the long line
>
> SRU Justification:
>
> Impact:
> A type of Dell Inspiron Mini does not turn off bluetooth physically when
> pressing F2 (rfkill hotkey).
>
> Fix:
> Current kernel code expects hardware to handle the hard-rfkill switching
> spontaneously and only notify rfkill subsystem with the status change.
> This patch makes kernel to explicitly fire a SMI to switch on/off
> rfkill devices if BIOS reports that the hardware switch is not supported.
>
> This patch depends on the following sauce patch in lucid kernel so is not going upstream:
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: dell-laptop: Store the HW switch status internally rather than requerying every time
>
> Testcase:
> I tested the patch on a Dell Mini 10. It works smoothly.
>
> --
> From 59c4dae1334a279fc917ffb26a74ae4339ed8d65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Keng-Yu Lin <keng-yu.lin at canonical.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:14:11 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: dell-laptop: fire SMI when toggling hardware killswitch
>
> When BIOS reports hardware switch is not supported, it does not turn on/off all
> devices spontaneously. So it is neccessary to fire an SMI to switch the rfkill
> status explicitly when toggling the hardware killswitch.
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590607
>
> Signed-off-by: Keng-Yu Lin <keng-yu.lin at canonical.com>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> index 15d96a0..a224f49 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
> #define WLAN_SWITCH_MASK 0
> #define BT_SWITCH_MASK 1
> #define WWAN_SWITCH_MASK 2
> +#define HW_SWITCH_SUPPORT 3
> #define HW_SWITCH_MASK 16
>
> /* This structure will be modified by the firmware when we enter
> @@ -240,7 +241,8 @@ static int dell_rfkill_set(void *data, bool blocked)
> int disable = blocked ? 1 : 0;
> unsigned long radio = (unsigned long)data;
>
> - if (!(hw_switch_status & BIT(radio-1)) || !(hw_switch_status & BIT(HW_SWITCH_MASK))) {
> + if (!(hw_switch_status & BIT(radio-1)) || !(hw_switch_status & BIT(HW_SWITCH_MASK)) || \
> + !(hw_switch_status & BIT(HW_SWITCH_SUPPORT))) {
> memset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(struct calling_interface_buffer));
> buffer.input[0] = (1 | (radio<<8) | (disable << 16));
> dell_send_request(&buffer, 17, 11);
> @@ -258,6 +260,7 @@ static void dell_rfkill_query(struct rfkill *rfkill, void *data)
> dell_send_request(&buffer, 17, 11);
> status = buffer.output[1];
>
> + hw_switch_status |= (status & BIT(0)) << BIT(HW_SWITCH_SUPPORT);
> hw_switch_status |= (status & BIT(HW_SWITCH_MASK)) ^ BIT(HW_SWITCH_MASK);
>
> /* HW switch control not supported
> --
> 1.7.0.4
Seems good to me.
Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>
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