Commit 1598bfa8 authored by Jorge Lopez's avatar Jorge Lopez Committed by Hans de Goede

platform/x86: hp_wmi: Fix rfkill causing soft blocked wifi

After upgrading BIOS to U82 01.02.01 Rev.A, the console is flooded
strange char "^@" which printed out every second and makes login
nearly impossible. Also the below messages were shown both in console
and journal/dmesg every second:

usb 1-3: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 1-3: device not accepting address 4, error -71
usb 1-3: device descriptor read/all, error -71
usb usb1-port3: unable to enumerate USB device

Wifi is soft blocked by checking rfkill. When unblocked manually,
after few seconds it would be soft blocked again. So I was suspecting
something triggered rfkill to soft block wifi.  At the end it was
fixed by removing hp_wmi module.

The root cause is the way hp-wmi driver handles command 1B on
post-2009 BIOS.  In pre-2009 BIOS, command 1Bh return 0x4 to indicate
that BIOS no longer controls the power for the wireless devices.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJorge Lopez <jorge.lopez2@hp.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216468Reviewed-by: default avatarMario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028155527.7724-1-jorge.lopez2@hp.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
parent 0df044b3
......@@ -1300,8 +1300,16 @@ static int __init hp_wmi_bios_setup(struct platform_device *device)
wwan_rfkill = NULL;
rfkill2_count = 0;
if (hp_wmi_rfkill_setup(device))
hp_wmi_rfkill2_setup(device);
/*
* In pre-2009 BIOS, command 1Bh return 0x4 to indicate that
* BIOS no longer controls the power for the wireless
* devices. All features supported by this command will no
* longer be supported.
*/
if (!hp_wmi_bios_2009_later()) {
if (hp_wmi_rfkill_setup(device))
hp_wmi_rfkill2_setup(device);
}
err = hp_wmi_hwmon_init();
......
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