eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4 and 5

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From: Alan Jenkins
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008 - 10:09 am

Did you miss a call to rfkill_force_state() on resume?

I can hibernate, then interrupt the boot with F2 to get into the BIOS,
change the "Enable WLAN" setting, and continue the resume.  When the
eeepc-laptop driver resumes, it restores the pre-hibernation value.

Actually, normal boot doesn't preserve the setting either.  Your commit
changes the behaviour from the rfkill state being persistent across
reboot / power off (as a bios setting), to being always enabled on
boot.  It seems like a bad idea to me.

Thanks
Alan
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eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4 and 5, Alan Jenkins, (Fri Oct 31, 10:09 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4 and 5, Matthew Garrett, (Fri Oct 31, 10:11 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4 and 5, Alan Jenkins, (Fri Oct 31, 10:27 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4 and 5, Alan Jenkins, (Fri Oct 31, 1:54 pm)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4 and 5, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Sat Nov 1, 8:46 pm)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4 and 5, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Sat Nov 1, 9:00 pm)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4 and 5, Matthew Garrett, (Sun Nov 2, 2:21 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Alan Jenkins, (Sun Nov 2, 4:17 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Matthew Garrett, (Sun Nov 2, 6:06 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Alan Jenkins, (Sun Nov 2, 6:25 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Matthew Garrett, (Sun Nov 2, 6:26 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Mon Nov 3, 7:16 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Matthew Garrett, (Mon Nov 3, 7:18 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Alan Jenkins, (Mon Nov 3, 7:29 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Mon Nov 3, 7:47 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Mon Nov 3, 7:51 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Matthew Garrett, (Mon Nov 3, 7:55 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Mon Nov 3, 8:02 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Matthew Garrett, (Mon Nov 3, 8:08 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Mon Nov 3, 9:33 am)
Re: rfkill, stupid question #6, Alan Jenkins, (Mon Nov 3, 11:00 am)
Re: rfkill, stupid question #6, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Mon Nov 3, 12:06 pm)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Luiz Fernando N. Cap ..., (Tue Nov 4, 8:48 am)
Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4, Alan Jenkins, (Tue Nov 4, 8:57 am)