[Saucy SRU] Detect new hp-wmi wireless interface

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Tue Dec 3 18:30:44 UTC 2013


On 12/03/2013 04:25 AM, Alex Hung wrote:
> SRU Justification: 
> 
> Impact: Some systems will not be able to turn of wifi or bluetooth as 
> 	hp-wmi calls depreciated and faulty interfaces.
> 
> Fix:	Using a flag reported by BIOS is able to determine whether new
> 	wmi interface is present.
> 
> Note:
> 
> The commit is 997daa1bd9aca412ab97955a35b26c460c0ec7a4 in upstream kernel
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249256
> 

Alex,

Any reason you didn't CC: stable when you submitted it to upstream? Would
seem to be a reasonable stable patch.

Brad
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