On 13 June 2016 at 17:01, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon 2016-06-13 15:59:35, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote: >> On 13 June 2016 at 15:00, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> >> > João, that means you should send a patch to add the ::rfkill suffix. >> >> > >> >> >> >> IMO "airplane" (or maybe "airplane-mode") is a better suffix, as it >> >> reflects the label on the machine's chassis. I'll name it >> >> "asus-wireless::airplane" and send this through platform-drivers-x86, >> >> as this is now contained in the platform-drivers-x86 subsystem. Thanks >> >> Johannes for your patience and help designing and reviewing the rfkill >> >> changes, even if not all of them made it through in the end. And >> >> thanks everyone else involved for the feedback. >> > >> > Actually, I'd do '::rfkill', for consistency with other places in >> > /sys. >> > >> > /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/rfkill/rfkill1/name >> > /sys/class/rfkill >> > /sys/module/rfkill >> > >> >> If we use "rfkill" as a suffix, how do you expect userspace to be able >> to differentiate between a LED that indicates airplane-mode (LED ON >> when all radios are OFF) and a LED that indicates the state of a >> specific radio like WiFi or Bluetooth (LED ON when that specific radio >> is ON)? If we're going this route we should provide meaningful >> information here. > > '::airplane' has same problem, no? > No, because in this case we would not use "airplane" as a suffix for a LED associated with an individual radio. > If you want to distinguish that, maybe you can do '::rfkill' for > everything vs '::rfkill-wifi' for wifi-only and '::rfkill-bt' for > bluetooth... > The problem here is that the "rfkill" name is already associated with individual rfkill switches under /sys/class/rfkill, /sys/devices/platform/*/rfkill etc, so I think we're better off distinguishing "airplane" vs "wifi" vs "bluetooth" etc, to avoid confusion. -- João Paulo Rechi Vita http://about.me/jprvita -- 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
