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

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Thu Jun 30 11:16:39 UTC 2011


On 06/27/2011 06:01 PM, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
> 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(-)
>

Natty and Oneiric

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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