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Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad: No hardware switch after 2016

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Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com> 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

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[PATCH v2 0/2] Disable rfkill hardblock if BIOS date > 2016 Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com> - 2016-02-15 11:30 +0100
  [PATCH 1/2] ideapad: No hardware switch after 2016 Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com> - 2016-02-15 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad: No hardware switch after 2016 Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2016-02-15 13:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad: No hardware switch after 2016 Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com> - 2016-02-15 18:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad: No hardware switch after 2016 Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2016-02-15 18:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad: No hardware switch after 2016 Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com> - 2016-02-16 03:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad: No hardware switch after 2016 Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2016-02-17 08:20 +0100

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