Re: [PATCH v2] backports: don't backport rfkill, only API

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On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 21:28 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> If the base kernel is 2.6.33 or higher (with the new rfkill API)
> then just wrap the API and disable rfkill registrations for any
> types that the base kernel doesn't know about.

Basically, this means that any type not present in the base kernel (e.g.
NFC on any base kernel < 3.10) won't get rfkill. As I outlined, I think
that's a useful compromise, having all the rfkill stuff but not being
able to use it because it's in /dev/rfkill_backport won't help either.

johannes

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