Mattia Dongili wrote:
> 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?
>
Sure. It seems to fit, and all we have to do is add a CC to the patch
>> Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Acked-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx>
>
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>> ---
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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