On 10/25/2011 07:13 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 06:22:47AM +0800, joeyli wrote: > > 於 四，2011-10-13 於 14:51 +0800，Ike Panhc 提到： > > > BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/836865 > > > BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/826784 > > > > > > There are reports say that acer-wmi is loaded on Thinkpad E520 which > > > cause wireless connection hard blocked and we can not unblock it. It > > > will be better not to load acer-wmi on this machine. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 7 +++++++ > > > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c > > > index af2bb20..dc9a116 100644 > > > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c > > > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c > > > @@ -325,6 +325,13 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __devinitdata acer_blacklist[] = { > > > DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "AOA150"), > > > }, > > > }, > > > + { > > > + .ident = "Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E520", > > > + .matches = { > > > + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"), > > > + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "114320U"), > > > + }, > > > + }, > > > {} > > > }; > > > > > > > Unfortunately didn't see any useful EC register for unblock wifi rfkill in acer-wmi, let's > > add this device to blacklist. > > > > Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxxxx> > > We've seen similar reports from other Lenovo machines & acer-wmi in Fedora bugzilla. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674353 for example has people reporting > the b450 and V460 also suffer the same issue. > > (There are also a bunch of bug reports from the other *-wmi modules on various hardware. > It seems these modules really upset rfkill). > > Dave > I've tried to find a way to prevent acer-wmi loaded if VPC2004 found in DSDT. Thinking twice, seems to do this in kernel is not a good idea because if acer-wmi is necessary in one model of ideapads then we need to re-compile kernel for testing. I think it will be better to do this in udev if possible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
