Re: [PATCH 0/8] [Resend] ideapad: using EC command to controlrf/camera power

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Aug 18 2010 - 06:35:53 EST


On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 09:36 +0100, Ike Panhc wrote:
>
> Once the rfkill of a laptop is set to block, it is no way to unblock with Linux
> without driver. Thanks for David Woodhouse wrote the first driver solving this.
>
> But the \_SB_.GECN and \_SB_.DECN are only available on Lenovo ideapad S10-3.
> Using EC command to control rf/camera power is better because I believe every
> ideapads which has VPC2004 device in its DSDT has this common method.
>
> This driver is tested and work fine on Lenovo ideapad B550 and ideapad S10-3.

Works for me too (on S10-3); thanks.

It all looks good, although should we have a delay or a schedule or at
least a cpu_relax() in the read_ec_data() and write_ec_cmd() loops?
Those loops should be using time_before() too, rather than open-coding
the comparison.

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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation

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