On 02/15/2016 08:08 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Ike Panhc <ike.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> There are complains on few ideapads that wireless is always hard >> blocked but there is no physical radio switch. For now, we need >> each user to report its dmi information and ignore hard blocks >> on their ideapad. With more and more ideapads available in market >> to maintain the dmi table becomes never-ended job. >> >> I've checked lenovo website and for recent design none of the >> ideapads has radio switch. I do not believe there will be in the >> future. Therefore to disable hard block according to BIOS date is >> reasonable approach. >> >> This patch will disable rfkill hardblock if BIOS year > 2015. > > Huh? And what happens when a user upgrades the BIOS on older hardware? > That's why I believe > 2015 is a better choice, not > 2014. Ideapads in market now carries BIOS year 2015 and I found no radio switch on them. And I don't believe anyone will receive or upgrade BIOS for more then 1y old machine. In fact I haven't heard anyone upgrading BIOS for a long time. -- Ike Panhc -- 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
