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Re: rfkill hard state after booting

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On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:02 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:

> I recently (on a flight) I found out that when I boot with the hard-switch
> activated, so turning off all wireless activity on my laptop, the state
> is not correctly announced in /dev/rfkill (reading it with rfkill command,
> or my own gnome applet). All the devices seem to be in normal state but
> one.

Very strange.

> Here some outputs:
> $ cd /sys/class/rfkill
> $ ls
> rfkill0@  rfkill1@  rfkill2@  rfkill3@	rfkill4@  rfkill5@
> $ cat rfkill?/name
> sony-wifi
> sony-bluetooth
> sony-wwan
> hso-0
> hci0
> phy0
> $
> 
> and the three sony-* are the ones for actually turning on/off the devices,
> but they showed all soft 0 hard 0 at initial startup. Only phy0 (AFAIR)
> had hard 1.

Makes sense. I mean, that phy0 was hard blocked.

> After turning off and on again the hard-switch the events were right.

I can't decide where this bug is. I suspect it's in the sony code.
Anyone feel responsible for that code?

johannes

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