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

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 13:49 +0100, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> Do you think it would be acceptable to ship a grub 2 hook that appends
> acpi_osi="Linux" to the kernel command line if update-grub is run on
> an affected model?
> I think it is technically feasible and reasonably safe, but I don't
> know how late it is to ship something that messes with the boot
> system.

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.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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