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Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

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On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 15:09 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> The final change is that I removed the code for changing the wireless 
> state in response to the txpower configuration in mac80211. Right now, I 
> can't see any way for this to work correctly - if the user disables the 
> radio via rfkill, mac80211 doesn't flag the radio as disabled. As a 
> result, the next time the configuration callback is called, b43 
> reenables the radio again, even though the user has explicitly disabled 
> it. I don't think any of the other drivers handle this case, so I'm not 
> really sure what the best way to handle this in future is. The current 
> situation certainly seems broken.

We're going to have to integrate rfkill with mac80211, but nobody cares.

johannes

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