On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. It's on the rt2x00 todo list since quite some time already in the hope to find a volunteer who was willing to do it. I can't promise any patches for at least a month in this area, but I'll see if I can take a shot at this in a couple of weeks time. 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
