[PATCH] [Natty SRU] Revert: "dell-laptop: Toggle the unsupported hardware killswitch"

Keng-Yu Lin kengyu at canonical.com
Mon Jun 27 17:01:10 UTC 2011


SRU Justification:

Impact: turning off wi-fi using the hotkey permenantly disables
wireless networking. The only way to turn it on is reboot.

Fix: Revert the previous patch to toggle the killswitch via the
Dell-specified SMI command without the concern if it is hardware-controlled.

I sent the revert patch to upstream already, but it is not yet merged.
I issued the SRU for Natty in case of the concern of blocking the certification.

Testcase: Confirmed to fix the issue on Dell Vostro 1014 and Latitude 2120

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775281

Keng-Yu Lin (1):
  Revert: "dell-laptop: Toggle the unsupported hardware killswitch"

 drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c |   24 ++----------------------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

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