From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753045AbcBOMJB (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:09:01 -0500 Received: from canardo.mork.no ([148.122.252.1]:59172 "EHLO canardo.mork.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752936AbcBOMI7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:08:59 -0500 From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= To: Ike Panhc Cc: Darren Hart , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad: No hardware switch after 2016 Organization: m References: <1455531813-1256-1-git-send-email-ike.pan@canonical.com> <1455531863-1294-1-git-send-email-ike.pan@canonical.com> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:08:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1455531863-1294-1-git-send-email-ike.pan@canonical.com> (Ike Panhc's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:24:23 +0800") Message-ID: <87r3gew4zw.fsf@nemi.mork.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.130015 (Ma Gnus v0.15) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ike Panhc writes: > There are complains on few ideapads that wireless is always hard > blocked but there is no physical radio switch. For now, we need > each user to report its dmi information and ignore hard blocks > on their ideapad. With more and more ideapads available in market > to maintain the dmi table becomes never-ended job. > > I've checked lenovo website and for recent design none of the > ideapads has radio switch. I do not believe there will be in the > future. Therefore to disable hard block according to BIOS date is > reasonable approach. > > This patch will disable rfkill hardblock if BIOS year > 2015. Huh? And what happens when a user upgrades the BIOS on older hardware? Bjørn