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

[Mario Limonciello]

Hi Matthew:

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 08:35, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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?

Manually running rfkill unblock will unblock it in this broken
firmware scenario in question.

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Mario Limonciello
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