Re: [PATCH] Revert: "dell-laptop: Toggle the unsupported hardwarekillswitch"

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Wed Jul 06 2011 - 19:01:50 EST


On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:50:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:19:03 +0100
> Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This reverts commit a3d77411e8b2ad661958c1fbee65beb476ec6d70,
> >
> > as it causes a mess in the wireless rfkill status on some models.
> > It is probably a bad idea to toggle the rfkill for all dell models
> > without the respect to the claim that it is hardware-controlled.
> >
>
> If we're reverting this from mainline then we should also revert it
> from 2.6.38.x and 2.6.39.x, no?

Yeah, this is stable material. I'll be dealing with the backlog
tomorrow.

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