On 9/4/07, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > >+static ssize_t show_rf_kill(struct device *d,
> > >+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> > >+{
> > >+ /*
> > >+ * 0 - RF kill not enabled
> > >+ * 1 - SW based RF kill active (sysfs)
> > >+ * 2 - HW based RF kill active
> > >+ * 3 - Both HW and SW based RF kill active
> > >
> > >that as well, along with all the other sysfs bits. Also, how about using
> > >the generic rfkill infrastructure Ivo did?
> >
> > is the generic rfkill interface already stable and merged into the linus tree?
>
> Yes. It currently is only missing users.
ok thats great ;) is the (userspace) interface defined somewhere? or
should I read the code to understand how it works? (would like to add
support to hal)
> > if not please leave this for now to not break userspace (hal).
> > hal currently is using this on all ipw* and iwl* drivers to get and
> > set the rfkill status. And NM uses this interface to set/get rfkill
> > status.
> >
> > So please don't remove this yet until the proper interface is merged
> > too (which should be better anyway because this one requires polling)
>
> The input-polldev interface could be used for polling if it is required.
shouldn't the new interface send events so that polling isn't required?
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
