[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#609911: Bug#609911: Bug#609911: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Wireless cannot be switched off with EEEPC 1016P

[Luca Niccoli]

On 14 January 2011 14:06, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:

> I think it would be better to make this a quirk in the kernel, if that's
> possible.  There is an existing blacklist that modifies the kernel's
> responses to OSI queries.  If you can provide the sys_vendor and
> product_version DMI strings for the affected models then I can add
> entries there.  These DMI strings are visible as files in
> /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id.

It seems to me that it will be a bit hard to collect all the model numbers.
Since AFAIUI the models affected are the same that use eeepc-wmi,
wouldn't it be possible to use the same method as the module to detect
if the quirk is needed?
Cheers,

Luca