Re: [PATCH] acer-wmi: blacklist Thinkpad edge E520

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Oct 24 2011 - 19:13:35 EST


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 06:22:47AM +0800, joeyli wrote:
> æ åï2011-10-13 æ 14:51 +0800ïIke Panhc æåï
> > BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/836865
> > BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/826784
> >
> > There are reports say that acer-wmi is loaded on Thinkpad E520 which
> > cause wireless connection hard blocked and we can not unblock it. It
> > will be better not to load acer-wmi on this machine.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 7 +++++++
> > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> > index af2bb20..dc9a116 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> > @@ -325,6 +325,13 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __devinitdata acer_blacklist[] = {
> > DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "AOA150"),
> > },
> > },
> > + {
> > + .ident = "Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E520",
> > + .matches = {
> > + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> > + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "114320U"),
> > + },
> > + },
> > {}
> > };
> >
>
> Unfortunately didn't see any useful EC register for unblock wifi rfkill in acer-wmi, let's
> add this device to blacklist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxxxx>

We've seen similar reports from other Lenovo machines & acer-wmi in Fedora bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674353 for example has people reporting
the b450 and V460 also suffer the same issue.

(There are also a bunch of bug reports from the other *-wmi modules on various hardware.
It seems these modules really upset rfkill).

Dave

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