Re: [PATCH 6/8] eeepc-laptop: Prevent a panic when disabling RT2860 wireless when associated

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I demand that Corentin Chary may or may not have written...

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Darren Salt <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This works around what I think is actually a bug in rt2860sta which is
>> triggered when the hardware "disappears" from beneath the driver, i.e.
>> when wireless is toggled off via ACPI. It does so by ensuring that the
>> rfkill soft-block flag is set before the hardware is disabled.
[snip patch]

> I sent you a revert request 2 days ago for this patch, Darren reported
> some problems with it.
> You may have missed it, it can be found at:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=125542258501548&w=2 .
> Is it still time to revert?

I certainly hope that there's still time – a much better patch for this
(which fixes the problem directly in rt2860sta) arrived in Greg KH's
staging.current queue late yesterday.

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