Re: Kernel error messages: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an LED's brightness failed

[Harvey <harv@gmx.de>]

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Michał, Jonathan,

just a short note: I am currently on vacation in Spain. I have my laptop
with me and will report back as soon as I find the time. I will try to
help in any way that I can. I want my laptop to be as functional as
possible with linux.

Greetings
Harvey

Am 20.07.2017 um 08:42 schrieb Michał Kępień:
>> Hello,
> 
> Hi!  Thank you for the report and sorry about the delay, but I have been
> at a conference for the past week, having way less spare time than I
> wish I had.
> 
>> I found your mail address in https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8598801/
>> and it seems you are somehow involved in the improvement for
>> fujitsu-laptop LED handling. If this does not 'belong' to you, maybe you
>> can point me in the right direction where to report the issue.
> 
> No worries, that is fine, though I have CCed Jonathan Woithe, who is the
> maintainer of fujitsu-laptop, and both the platform-driver-x86 mailing
> list and LKML (both are open lists).
> 
>> So let's start explaining.
>> I am the proud owner of a Fujitsu Lifebook E 751 (DMI: FUJITSU LIFEBOOK
>> E751/FJNB222, BIOS Version 1.22 04/19/2013) which is equipped with some
>> LEDs in the body (11 to be clear).
> 
> A photo would be useful (though please do not attach it to your message,
> provide a link to it instead) so that we know exactly what we are
> discussing; image search engines can sometimes come up with confusing
> results when looking for a specific model.  Is this what your laptop
> looks like?
> 
> https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/Fujitsu-LB-E751-Tastatur_1j.jpg
> 
> I also found an alleged photo of an E781, which apparently is a very
> similar model:
> 
> https://www.notebookcheck.com/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_Fujitsu_lifebook_E781_Tastatur_67df789f2a.jpg
> 
> Are these the 11 LEDs you mentioned?
> 
>   - top, left: E, HDD, Num Lock, Caps Lock, Scroll Lock,
>   - top, right: I, Power Button,
>   - front (not pictured in the first photo above): Power Supply, Battery
>     Charging, Battery 1, Battery 2.
> 
>> I am using archlinux and as of kernel
>> 4.11 (IIRC) there has appeared an error message in the journalctl log
>> saying:
>>
>> kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an LED's brightness failed
>> (-2147483648)
>>
>> This appears for several times:
>>
>> harvey@gruenix ~/Documents/scripts $ sudo journalctl -b | grep radio_led
>> 725:Jul 14 12:29:37 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 761:Jul 14 12:29:37 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 762:Jul 14 12:29:37 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 788:Jul 14 12:29:38 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 796:Jul 14 12:29:38 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 799:Jul 14 12:29:38 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 887:Jul 14 12:29:45 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 979:Jul 14 12:29:45 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 981:Jul 14 12:29:45 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 987:Jul 14 12:29:45 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 988:Jul 14 12:29:45 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 1009:Jul 14 12:29:45 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 1010:Jul 14 12:29:45 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 1036:Jul 14 12:29:46 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 1037:Jul 14 12:29:46 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 1776:Jul 14 12:33:48 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 1777:Jul 14 12:33:48 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 1779:Jul 14 12:33:48 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 1781:Jul 14 12:33:48 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
>> 1783:Jul 14 12:33:48 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an
>> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648)
> 
> 4.11 included a patch which sets the default trigger for the radio LED
> to rfkill-any, which would explain why you only started seeing these
> errors after upgrading to that version.  See also below.
> 
>> Some of the LEDs are not working under linux, especially the bluetooth
>> one
> 
> Where is the Bluetooth LED located?  I cannot see it.  Can you show it
> on a photo?  How does it behave under other operating systems?
> 
>> and three others E,
> 
> According to a manual I found [1], this is an "Energy saving functions
> indicator", which is lit when "energy function are enabled".  My guess
> would be it can be repurposed under Linux.
> 
>> I(nformation)
> 
> According to the same manual, this LED signals battery level when the
> laptop is off (S5 state) and the "I" key is pressed.  Not sure it can be
> repurposed, but how does it behave under other operating systems?
> 
>> and one that shows the sign of a
>> lock with up and down arrows in it.
> 
> That is Scroll Lock.  I do not think fujitsu-laptop has anything to do
> with it.  If it does not work the way you expect it to, you might want
> to search the web, because there are known inconsistencies in how
> various distributions handle it.
> 
>> The case is equipped with a slider
>> for Wireless on/off, if that matters.
> 
> It does, see also below.
> 
>> Although the message seems to be harmless I am somewhat embarrassed what
>> happens here and thought I might report it to someone with more knowledge ;)
> 
> Again, thank you for the report, because implementing a feature like
> this in a platform driver often requires at least some guesswork, which
> may result in that feature working for some users and misbehaving for
> others.  This is an example of such a situation.
> 
> As you may have inferred from the patchwork link you visited, I was not
> sure whether my method of detecting radio LED presence was correct.
> Your report clearly proves I was wrong.  Could you please send me the
> BTNI value reported on your laptop?  You should be able to look it up by
> running:
> 
>     $ dmesg | grep BTNI
>     
> In fact, posting your entire dmesg output somewhere would not hurt
> either.
> 
> Anyway, you were curious what causes these log messages to appear.  I
> believe it happens because fujitsu-laptop _thinks_ you have a radio LED
> present on your machine, which causes it to register this LED with a
> default trigger set to rfkill-any.  This means the kernel tries to
> enable this LED whenever any radio transmitter is active and disable it
> when all radio transmissions are disabled.  In order to set the state of
> the LED, the kernel driver calls a function exposed by the firmware.
> This function returns an error, which is logged.  The specific error
> number you are seeing (-2147483648) means "unsupported command", which
> means fujitsu-laptop attempted to use a feature which is unsupported by
> your laptop's firmware.  If you want to get rid of these messages,
> running the following after every reboot should be enough:
> 
>     # echo "none" > /sys/class/leds/fujitsu::radio_led/trigger
> 
> However, I would appreciate it if you could help us with finding out the
> correct way to detect the radio LED (it may as well turn out it is not
> possible by just checking firmware contents).  For starters, we will
> need your laptop's DSDT table, which you can extract using:
> 
>     # cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.bin
> 
> The resulting binary file dsdt.bin is what is needed for further
> analysis.
> 
> [1] http://www.lpmanual.com/manuals/fujitsu/Fujitsu_LIFEBOOK_E751.pdf
> 

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