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Re: [RFC] b43: A patch for control of the radio LED using rfkill

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On Thursday 18 September 2008 20:10:35 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Thursday 18 September 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 September 2008 19:48:27 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > Well no actually, when the radio state (software rfkill state in your words)
> > 
> > No, "radio state" is _not_ "software rfkill state" in my words.
> > It's an independent state.
> > The actual physical radio state is a combined state of the two sw and hw state bits.
> > If either bit blocks the radio, it's physically blocked. We cannot toggle the hw bit
> > from software.
> 
> Ah ok. In that case b43 should do:
> 
> send HW_BLOCK when the hardware rfkill state is set to block
> send SOFT_BLOCK when the software rfkill state is set to block
> 
> But it shouldn't (and that change was the start of this discussion) send SOFT_BLOCK
> when mac80211 disabled the radio.

I'm kind of confused. You say one thing and revert it right in the next sentence.

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Greetings Michael.
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