Bug 605788

Summary:	Dell rfkill takes a while to take hold
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John Feeney <jfeeney>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	peterm
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Description Bastien Nocera 2010-06-18 18:57:25 UTC

kernel-2.6.32-36.el6.i686

$ rfkill event
RFKILL event: idx 0 type 1 op 0 soft 0 hard 0
RFKILL event: idx 1 type 1 op 0 soft 0 hard 0
RFKILL event: idx 2 type 2 op 0 soft 0 hard 0
RFKILL event: idx 3 type 5 op 0 soft 0 hard 0
RFKILL event: idx 13 type 2 op 0 soft 0 hard 0
<turn hardware rfkill on>
RFKILL event: idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 1
RFKILL event: idx 13 type 2 op 1 soft 0 hard 0
<a very long second>
RFKILL event: idx 1 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 1
RFKILL event: idx 2 type 2 op 2 soft 1 hard 1
RFKILL event: idx 3 type 5 op 2 soft 1 hard 1

So during a short while, I have a "dell-bluetooth" rfkill switch which is neither soft nor hard-blocked, where the Bluetooth device disappears straight away.

# When hard blocked.
$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: yes
3: dell-wwan: Wireless WAN
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: yes

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-06-18 19:23:25 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2010-07-15 14:27:44 UTC

This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker
issues in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. It has
been denied for the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

** If you would still like this issue considered for the current
release, ask your support representative to file as a blocker on
your behalf. Otherwise ask that it be considered for the next
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. **

Comment 4 Matthew Garrett 2010-11-24 21:46:49 UTC

Dell inform me that some hardware doesn't update the status bits immediately, so this pause is required.