[Quantal][Precise SRU] asus-wmi: update wlan LED through rfkill led trigger

AceLan Kao acelan.kao at canonical.com
Wed Aug 29 03:21:08 UTC 2012


Hi,

I just found those patches are hit linux-next tree, and
Andy was asking to submit the patch to kernel-team, so I did it.

Alright, I'll re-submit the SRU after those code getting merged upstream.

Best regards,
AceLan Kao.

2012/8/28 Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>:
> On 08/28/2012 12:15 AM, AceLan Kao wrote:
>> For this issue
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/901105
>>
>> We need 2 patches from linux-next tree
>>
>> commit 06d7de831dab8b93adb86e039a2f3d36604a9197
>> Author: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
>> Date:   Thu Jul 26 09:51:08 2012 +0800
>>
>>     Revert "rfkill: remove dead code"
>>
>>     This reverts commit 2e48928d8a0f38c1b5c81eb3f1294de8a6382c68.
>>
>>     Those functions are needed and should not be removed, or
>>     there is no way to set the rfkill led trigger name.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
>>
>> commit 154a7a7b22342ab9ccde34f583e4b730965ee515
>> Author: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
>> Date:   Fri Jul 27 16:51:59 2012 +0800
>>
>>     asus-wmi: update wlan LED through rfkill led trigger
>>
>>     For those machines with wapf=4, BIOS won't update the wireless LED,
>>     since wapf=4 means user application will take in chage of the wifi and bt.
>>     So, we have to update wlan LED status explicitly.
>>
>>     But I found there is another wireless LED bug in launchpad and which is
>>     not in the wapf=4 quirk.
>>     So, it might be better to set wireless LED status explicitly for all
>>     machines.
>>
>>     BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/901105
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Is there any reason we can't wait until these get merged upstream ?
>
> --
> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com



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