On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:15:24PM +0100, Alan Jenkins 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)...
>
> After turning off and on again the hard-switch the events were right."
>
> We can fix this by querying the firmware at load time and calling
> rfkill_set_hw_state().
Is it worth trying to get this into a stable release?
> Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> index dafaa4a..a234a9d 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> @@ -1081,6 +1081,8 @@ static int sony_nc_setup_rfkill(struct acpi_device *device,
> struct rfkill *rfk;
> enum rfkill_type type;
> const char *name;
> + int result;
> + bool hwblock;
>
> switch (nc_type) {
> case SONY_WIFI:
> @@ -1108,6 +1110,10 @@ static int sony_nc_setup_rfkill(struct acpi_device *device,
> if (!rfk)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> + sony_call_snc_handle(0x124, 0x200, &result);
> + hwblock = !(result & 0x1);
> + rfkill_set_hw_state(rfk, hwblock);
> +
> err = rfkill_register(rfk);
> if (err) {
> rfkill_destroy(rfk);
> --
> 1.6.3.2
>
>
>
--
mattia
:wq!
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