Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.117]:45108 "EHLO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752769AbYIQPsE (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:48:04 -0400 Message-ID: <48D1269C.4060301@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20080917_174812_573988_5CF4FDD8) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:47:40 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh CC: Michael Buesch , Matthew Garrett , Carlos Corbacho , Adel Gadllah , wireless , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, LKML Subject: Re: Regression in 2.6.27-rcX caused by commit bc19d6e0b74ef03a3baf035412c95192b54dfc6f References: <48CFC03A.8020708@lwfinger.net> <48D0095B.40403@lwfinger.net> <20080916233240.GA18574@srcf.ucam.org> <200809171622.55882.mb@bu3sch.de> <20080917145007.GA5186@khazad-dum.debian.net> <48D1221B.1000601@lwfinger.net> <20080917153637.GD5186@khazad-dum.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <20080917153637.GD5186@khazad-dum.debian.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Sorry, it can't fix that regression by itself, since b43 is not using > rfkill_force_state() in mainline. > > It will fix the same issue you are experiencing on b43 in anything that uses > rfkill_force_state(), which means (for mainline): iwlwifi, rt2x00, > thinkpad-acpi and hp-wmi. > > It is a regression only on b43 and thinkpad-acpi, as the other drivers above > didn't use rfkill_force_state() in 2.6.26. > > To fix the regression in b43, you'd be faced with the need of both my simple > patch AND Matthew's more complex one. I don't expect that the more complex one will be accepted into 2.6.27. Larry