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Re: [PATCH] Ath9k: Add RF kill support.

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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:45:47PM +0530, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > > CONFIG_ATH9K_RFKILL needs to be set
> > > to enable this support.
> > 
> > why do we have to introduce yet another config option for this? What is
> > the advantage of disabling RFKILL support? I really don't see it and all
> > these extra config options are rather confusing than useful.
> Normally home users may not hit a situation where they have to
> disable the radio, so they can compile out the rf kill support
> and essentially disable the periodic run of the work queue 
> (rfkill_poll ,runs for every 2 secs).If this does not make 
> any sense, I will remove this config option.

What doesn't make sense at all is to have it manually selectable.  Just
define it to the same value of CONFIG_RFKILL, or use CONFIG_RFKILL directly
outright.

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