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[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

On Do, 03 Dez 2009, Raphael Gradenwitz wrote:
> I did and the reason seemed to be the forgotten line
> 
> options sony-laptop alt_rfkill=1
>                     ^^^

Of course ... you forgot to read the dmesg/log. Because the new module
was not inserted *at*all.

Loading a module with non-existing modparam does not succeed:

$ modprobe sony-laptop alt_rfkill=1
FATAL: Error inserting sony_laptop (/lib/modules/2.6.32/updates/dkms/sony-laptop.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
$ 

and afterwards *no* sony-laptop is loaded.

That also means that all rfkill and acpi and everything is gone ;-)

> I did not expect that that would break functionality but it does.

In the sense that the module is not loaded it breaks functionality, yes.

Best wishes

Norbert

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