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Re: [PATCH] acer-wmi: fix rfkill conversion

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On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 09:48 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> On 6/17/09, Troy Moure <twmoure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Commit 19d337dff95cbf76ed ("rfkill: rewrite") incorrectly reversed
> > the meaning of 'state' in acer_rfkill_update() when it changed
> > rfkill_force_state() to rfkill_set_sw_state().  Fix it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Troy Moure <twmoure@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > This fixes the rfkill switch on my Acer laptop, which was behaving
> > backwards (the state reported in the logs was the opposite of the
> > state indicated by the LED).
> 
> I think there's another reversal error that you didn't notice :-).  I
> found that acer-wmi disables the wireless when it is loaded.

Ahrg.

> The core tries to initialize the wireless to enabled, but the polarity
> is wrong in acer_rfkill_set().  It ends up disabling the wireless
> instead.
> 
> Here's a patch for it.

I really should go back and audit it again, but every instance takes me
about 5 minutes to do the (not state != unblocked) thing in my
head ... :/

Thanks!

johannes

> --->
> From 75953366b4958a77019729662a997f5d361a7529 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:29:21 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] acer-wmi: fix rfkill conversion
> 
> Fix another polarity error introduced by the rfkill rewrite,
> this time in acer_rfkill_set().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> index be2fd6f..fb45f5e 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> @@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ static int acer_rfkill_set(void *data, bool blocked)
>  {
>  	acpi_status status;
>  	u32 cap = (unsigned long)data;
> -	status = set_u32(!!blocked, cap);
> +	status = set_u32(!blocked, cap);
>  	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	return 0;

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