Re: [PATCH 3/8] sony-laptop: ignore hard switch rfkill events (SPIC)

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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:46:54PM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:06:18AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Do you possibly want to catch these and make sure the kernel rfkill 
> > state matches the hardware?
> 
> hmmmm, to be honest I'm not entirely sure what the actual problem is.
> Maybe it's just a timing issue that is made better by avoiding the
> input/acpi event generation. For now drop this patch (there is a
> different workaround using the mask parameter).

Delivering it to userspace can be racy - rfkill-input will try to toggle 
the state as well. So I think this is the right thing to do, but you 
might also want to use it to check the current hardware state and update 
the state of the rfkill device.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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