On Thu, 15 May 2008, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 13:34 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 14 May 2008 14:21:15 +0200, "Thomas Renninger" <trenn@xxxxxxx> said: > > > Shouldn't the thinkpad driver do this automatically? > > > ... > > I HEAVILY suggest not messing with ANYTHING related to rfkill until my changes > > get in mainline, or we could risk the backlight crap all again. > 11.0 is on the way, we will stick to 2.6.25. It will work on 2.6.25, you just need to backport it :-) It is contained to a header file and the net/rfkill/rfkill* files, plus documentation. And it is fully backwards compatible with all in-tree drivers (they won't break any further, nor will them change behaviour. But they won't be fixed either, you need to fix the drivers too). A full backport will be distributed along with the thinkpad-acpi backports, for example. > > It is sufficient to say that almost NOTHING in mainline is > > using rfkill correctly, so please don't try to make it work using > > userspace workarounds yet. Let's fix this properly before it bites us in the arse. > > PLEASE be patient for this. > If there is no other way, we need to add quick userspace fixes, but I > got it -> we'll try to avoid this. Basically, there is nothing you can do to fix it in userspace right now. Stuff on the kernel are doing one of those Absolute No-No things: issuing input events as status change notifications. Only, this time it is not userspace that replies to them and blow everything up. rfkill-input does. > > If you're interested in helping, the > > first bunch of patches is not more than a week away from hitting LKML, > > and I can explicitly CC any of you that asks me to in a reply :-) > Please add me :) Sure. > I try to help, at least with testing. > > The design for the rfkill changes was debated on LKML in a somewhat > > long thread, if you want to get up to speed on the issues. > > Look for it on the last two month's archives. > Thanks a lot! > I wonder how this should work to also get other drivers using it and > backport all this for 2.6.25. Let's see..., I am looking forward to have > a look at the patches. Drivers will need to be fixed, yes. b43 for certain. Others might need some fixing too. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
