Re: thinkpad_acpi: Saving bluetooth state to NVRAM problem and fix

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Vsevolod Kozlov wrote:
> thinkpad_acpi normally fails to save Bluetooth state to NVRAM on my system
> (ThinkPad X120e).  However, a small change in the code fixes the functionality:
> 
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -3999,7 +3999,7 @@ static const struct tpacpi_rfk_ops bluetooth_tprfk_ops = {
>  static void bluetooth_shutdown(void)
>  {
>  	/* Order firmware to save current state to NVRAM */
> -	if (!acpi_evalf(NULL, NULL, "\\BLTH", "vd",
> +	if (!acpi_evalf(NULL, NULL, "\\_SB.BLTH", "vd",
>  			TP_ACPI_BLTH_SAVE_STATE))
>  		pr_notice("failed to save bluetooth state to NVRAM\n");
>  	else
> 
> I can't tell whether this breaks the functionality on other ThinkPad systems
> because I don't have any, though.

Yes, it would break other systems.  But I can write a fix that supports both
systems with the data you supplied.

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  Henrique Holschuh
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