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Re: [PATCH 01/12] rfkill: clarify meaning of rfkill states

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On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:14:19AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> 1. Every transmitter shall have ONE, and just ONE (not zero, not two,
> not more) rfkill class attached.  For those transmitters lacking support
> in hardware to make it block, the drivers shall quiesce them and avoid
> doing anything to cause transmissions, or even use bus tricks to power
> the device down (i.e. the driver will emulate a switch capable of doing
> the blocking).

How do we enforce this? iwl4965 provides an rfkill device, but hp-wmi 
will also provide one for the wifi. If I swap out the wireless card for 
something else, I may lose the card-specific rfkill device.

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