From: Jorge Lopez jorge.lopez2@hp.com
commit 1598bfa8e1faa932de42e1ee7628a1c4c4263f0a upstream.
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=216468 Reviewed-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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c @@ -899,8 +899,16 @@ static int __init hp_wmi_bios_setup(stru 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 = device_create_file(&device->dev, &dev_attr_display); if (err)