On Wednesday 29 April 2015 15:57:58 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 15:08:40 Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 12:30:32 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote: > > > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 11:51:04 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > This is an ACPI driver for Dell laptops which receive HW switch events. > > > > It exports rfkill device dell-rbtn which provide correct hard rfkill state. > > > > > > > > Alex Hung added code for supporting Dell laptops which have toggle button > > > > instead HW slider switch. On these laptops toggle button event is reported > > > > by new input device (instead rfkill) as they do not have hw radio switch. > > > > > > > > It looks like those are two different functions (rfkill, input device), but > > > > Dell BIOS exports them via same ACPI device and uses same ACPI functions. > > > > So code is in one kernel driver. > > > > > > I made a patch some time ago that I've just adapted. It allows to > > > prefer RBTN_SLIDER over RBTN_TOGGLE. The main reason why I'd like to > > > have the hardware switch is that the BIOS doesn't alter the soft state > > > of the devices. This comes in handy when the function key controls > > > multiple radio devices. > > > > > > > Now I'm thinking... is't this bug in wifi kernel driver (which exports > > phy rfkill)? Or problem somewhere else (userspace or kernel)? > > What is the presumed bug you are referring to? The fact that the soft state > doesn't change? Can you remind me whats the problem on your laptop? -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
