Re: [PATCH] hp-wmi: improve rfkill support

From: Alan Jenkins
Date: Thu Jul 23 2009 - 14:27:42 EST


Maciej Rutecki wrote:
2009/7/21 Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
1) Add support for reading the hardware blocked state. Previously
we read a combination of the hardware and software blocked states,
reporting it as the software blocked state. This caused some
confusing behaviour.

2) The software state is persistent, mark it as such.

3) Check rfkill in the resume handler. Both the hard and soft
blocked states may change over hibernation.

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@xxxxxxxxx>

It's this patch is added to -rc4?

No. <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=hp-wmi>

I didn't submit it for 2.6.31 because I didn't think it fixed a regression.

I one case I have strange behaviour.

Before disable by button:
root@gumis:/home/maciek/Desktop# rfkill list
2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
16: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
17: phy7: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Disable by button:
root@gumis:/home/maciek/Desktop# rfkill list
2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
17: phy7: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

I do s2disk. After resume from suspend to disk (still disabled by button):
root@gumis:/home/maciek/Desktop# rfkill list
2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
18: phy8: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

Try enable by button:
root@gumis:/home/maciek/Desktop# rfkill list
2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
18: phy8: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

Nothing change (LED, wireless and bluetooth don't work). To enable it
I use this script rfkill.sh (I must use rfkill program):

#!/bin/sh
PROGRAM=/usr/local/sbin/rfkill
WIFI=`$PROGRAM list | grep -E 'Wireless|Bluetooth' | cut -d ':' -f 1`

for DEVICE in $WIFI; do
echo $DEVICE
$PROGRAM unblock $DEVICE
done

Then works OK:
root@gumis:/home/maciek/Desktop# ./rfkill.sh
2
3
18
root@gumis:/home/maciek/Desktop# rfkill list
2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
18: phy8: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
19: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

It's normal behaviour?

That's a bug. You're saying this is in -rc4, without applying my patch?

I think I know exactly what is happening. Apply my patch, and it will go away :-).

I'm not sure this is a new bug though. It might be triggered by the big rfkill rewrite, but I don't see how that could happen. Can you confirm if this happens in 2.6.30?

Thanks
Alan
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