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: Jorge Lopez <jorge.lopez2@hp.com> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216468Reviewed-by: Mario 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: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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