Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
I apologise. Re-reading it, it does look like a rant, indeed. It wasn't
supposed to be, but the tone came up nasty and quite defensive. I didn't
intend it to.
The sheer ammount of explanations I have had to type over the whole rfkill
business is, apparently, getting to me a lot more than expected, and I guess
that put me in the defensive. There is no excuse for that.
So, please accept my appologies on the tone of the last email. Please
reconsider reading that email in full, and please try to ignore the rantness
smell in it. I did try to explain the technical reasons why some changes
would be needed in b43.
I am sorry I didn't send you any patches. I don't have any access to a b43
device, and as a rule, I try to avoid modifying code I will not be able to
test, especially when I don't know the code to begin with and the changes
are not going to be small, obvious ones.
To address one point though: userspace does want a notification when the
hw-rfkill is activated so it (e.g. network manager) can ask people to
un-rfkill their device.
I tried to add such notifications directly to the rfkill class. rfkill now
issues uevents and calls a notification chain for any state changes. It has
been modified to differentiate hw-rfkill from sw-rfkill, and export that
information to userspace for network-manager and other applications to use.
I am more than happy to test any b43 patches that you generate. My b43
device has a wireless switch.
Larry
--
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
