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

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 13:59 +0100, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> 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?

No.

Ben.

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