On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:30:07AM +0800, Keng-Yu Lin wrote: > Some BIOS does not report the correct state of the wireless killswitch > in the return value of SMI Class 17, Select 11. > > This causes the killswitch to always stay as soft-blocked once the rfkill > hotkey is pressed. > > This patch adds a module parameter to work around this by disregarding > the software rfkill and using only Bit 16 in the return value of > SMI Class 17, Select 11 as the hardware killswitch.
I don't like "Fix my hardware" options. Is there any way we can identify this failure case? -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
