Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Add hwswitch_only module parameter
From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Oct 07 2010 - 09:35:43 EST
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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