Re: [Bug 106031] Regression in 4.2.x: in airplane mode each time I open my laptop lid

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On 23/10/2015 11:00, Pali Rohár wrote:
On Friday 23 October 2015 01:29:12 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
On 22/10/2015 16:17, Pali Rohár wrote:
On Thursday 22 October 2015 15:43:46 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
It's the F2 key. Depending on the value passed to the RBTN, it acts as
hw slider or sw toggle.

Ok, we have differences in terminology and everybody understood this
problem differently.


To correct this situation, first define about what we are talking about:

* HW slider: It is hardware slider switch which as two positions ON and
              OFF. Position exactly defines hardware state of wireless
              radio devices. Not possible (or should not) to remap.

* SW hotkey toggle button: It is button or key, act in same way as any
                            other key on keyboard, controlled by SW
                            (if all drivers are installed, etc).

Sorry for the confusion, I know I've been using "HW slider" improperly,
but I thought it was clear. Although it's a button, the BIOS makes it
behave like an hardware slider when configured to behave as such
through RBTN. The state of radio devices is changed by the BIOS when
the function key is pressed, this state is never changed until the user
presses the function key again (at least if we ignore the fact that we
can perform some special SMI calls), this state is saved in the EC and
both userspace and the kernel don't receive any event other than rfkill
events (if we don't consider the WMI events ignored by dell-wmi).

I think this behavior is closer to the one of an hardware slider
rather than the one of a software hotkey, which I can still request
through the RBTN method.

Next I think that this hypothesis is truth:

* Every machine on which is binded ACPI dell-rbtn.ko driver has either
   HW slider or SW toggle. Not both!

Correct?

It depends on how you classify my laptop. The behavior changes
completely depending on the value passed to RBTN.

Obviously it can behave either as HW slider (again, not an actual
slider) or SW toggle, but I can choose between the two.


If it has keyboard button and not switch with visible two positions, it
is "toggle button" (from HW perspective).

Yes, sorry for the confusion.

Then follows my expected behaviour for HW slider:

* State of HW slider position is exported by kernel as rfkill device.

* In any case HW slider position (ON/OFF) match hard rfkill state device
   (rfkill device state is correct also after resume, wake from hibernate).

* Immediately after user change position of HW slider, rfkill device
   reflect it.


And then expected behaviour for SW toggle button:

* Every time when user press it, kernel just send input event "wireless
   key pressed" to userspace.

* Kernel does not send event "wireless key pressed" when user did not
   pressed it (e.g. after resuming from suspend, waking from hibernate).

Yes, but we don't know exactly when the user pressed the button. As I
said, the BIOS might send an event that triggers an input event even if
the user didn't press anything.


Ok. This is strange if BIOS send event "changed" even if it was not
really changed.

Is BIOS sending this incorrect event only after waking from suspend? Or
it is also randomly at any time?

I looked at the ACPI table. It happens only on resume (or when the user
presses the function key).

If we know that it send incorrectly only after suspend, we can drop this
event. But if it is completely randomly, we probably cannot do anything
(and just do not use driver in this case).

* Kernel should provide rfkill devices to "soft" block appropriate
   wireless cards.

* Make sure that BIOS/firmware in any case does not change radio rfkill
   state of any wireless card and wireless cards stay in same state as
   before (no enable/disable or changing hard/soft rfkill state).

This is the problem. We can't differentiate notifications sent to
DELLABCE/DELLRBTN by the BIOS because it felt like it was right to do so
(e.g. after resuming) or because the user pressed the function key.


In my opinion it is better to ignore user key press after resume, if it
fix our problem. Better as false-positive event.

The following appears to work really well. The notification arrives
before rbtn_resume() has been executed, so the extra event is ignored.

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-rbtn.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-rbtn.c
index cd410e3..1d64b72 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-rbtn.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-rbtn.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct rbtn_data {
 	enum rbtn_type type;
 	struct rfkill *rfkill;
 	struct input_dev *input_dev;
+	bool suspended;
 };


@@ -220,9 +221,33 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id rbtn_ids[] = {
 	{ "", 0 },
 };

+#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
+static int rbtn_suspend(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct acpi_device *device = to_acpi_device(dev);
+	struct rbtn_data *rbtn_data = acpi_driver_data(device);
+
+	rbtn_data->suspended = true;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int rbtn_resume(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct acpi_device *device = to_acpi_device(dev);
+	struct rbtn_data *rbtn_data = acpi_driver_data(device);
+
+	rbtn_data->suspended = false;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(rbtn_pm_ops, rbtn_suspend, rbtn_resume);
+
 static struct acpi_driver rbtn_driver = {
 	.name = "dell-rbtn",
 	.ids = rbtn_ids,
+	.drv.pm = &rbtn_pm_ops,
 	.ops = {
 		.add = rbtn_add,
 		.remove = rbtn_remove,
@@ -384,6 +409,9 @@ static void rbtn_notify(struct acpi_device *device, u32 event)
 {
 	struct rbtn_data *rbtn_data = device->driver_data;

+	if (rbtn_data->suspended)
+		return;
+
 	if (event != 0x80) {
 		dev_info(&device->dev, "Received unknown event (0x%x)\n",
 			 event);

If last sentence is not truth, then kernel must not send "wireless key
pressed" event to userspace and act like "no key was pressed".


Make this sense? Or are there any objections about this behaviour?


So if you are OK with above my description (from previous email), then
we should fix dell-rbtn to act as it (if it is not implemented already
and correctly).

So my next question is: Does dell-rbtn behave like my description? If
not what are differences and what needs to be fixed?

Everything works as expected. We only have to deal with this extra
notification.
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