Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:30:57AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:

>    In this specific scenario that Ken Yu submitted this patch for, the
>    firmware will return the same return codes for the SMI's as a functional
>    machine will.  Machines affected by this will fail to recover after rfkill
>    is toggled twice.  The symptom will be that the soft block always appears
>    set to the same setting with continued keypresses.
>    During the prototype phase this option is quite useful to help debug the
>    problem it addresses.

Is the kernel able to unblock it under those circumstances?

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