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| From | Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad: No hardware switch after 2016 |
| Date | 2016-02-15 18:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <r2uOS-3Y1-25@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <r2ozM-824-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <r2ozM-824-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <r2q8y-HB-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 02/15/2016 08:08 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > 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? > That's why I believe > 2015 is a better choice, not > 2014. Ideapads in market now carries BIOS year 2015 and I found no radio switch on them. And I don't believe anyone will receive or upgrade BIOS for more then 1y old machine. In fact I haven't heard anyone upgrading BIOS for a long time. -- Ike Panhc
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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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