On Thursday 18 September 2008, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:32 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > > Ideal situation would indeed be that mac80211 registers a rfkill structure > > and listens to rfkill events. This would help drivers by only needing to > > register a rfkill structure for state-change events without any need for > > listeners. > > Yup. > > > I was considering such a patch some time ago, but needed to figure out > > how to work with the state-override capabilities (HW_BLOCK and SOFT_BLOCK) > > and didn't work on it any further since. > > So make the struct part of the hw structure? Then drivers can just use > that to force hard events. Or actually, no, don't do this, make a new > mac80211 call: > > ieee80211_inform_hardblocked(BLOCK/OPEN) > > which makes sure we can also try to not associate in this case in the > future... Yeah, unfortunately that wasn't the probablematic part. ;) Anyway when I have some time available I'll see if I can sort it out and make it work. But that will not be for another week or 2. Ivo -- 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
