Jaunty SRU - LP364678 - UBUNTU: [PATCH v2] Sony laptop: Some Sony Vaia laptops do not enable wwan power by default.

[Amit Kucheria]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 01:35:02PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> The following changes since commit a63b7d7beeaa1f8f33369cab6419831fa8991e40:
>   Tyler Hicks (1):
>         UBUNTU: SAUCE: (drop after 2.6.28) [PATCH] eCryptfs: Larger buffer for encrypted symlink targets
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-jaunty lp364678
> 
> Tim Gardner (1):
>       UBUNTU: Sony laptop: Sony Vaio laptops do not enable wwan power by default.
> 
>  drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> From 71194af7cddcf95c8a4b137c918a86097f3d0be9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:09:10 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: Sony laptop: Sony Vaio laptops do not enable wwan power by default.
> 
> Bug: #364678
> 
> Added quirk to enable wwan power based on DMI information already present in the module.
> It appears Vaio laptops do not enable wwan power after a cold boot.

Is there any way to disable wwan w/o toggling the sysfs interface? I guess it isn't hardwired. So you're changing default OFF to default ON (hence higher power consumption).

ACK on the patch. Not sure about change in the behaviour though.
 
Regards,
Amit

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