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

[Matthew Garrett]

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?

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