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Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:05:43PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Does the wireless driver get the notification about this from the
> hardware, like it would if this was a real physical switch?

Yes.

> Then it's probably pretty simple: provide a rfkill struct from the 
> driver that updates hard-kill and provide a second rfkill struct for 
> the platform device that doesn't get hard-killed, but also provide a 
> soft-kill input form the platform device. That way, you can toggle 
> that button, but you can also software-enable the platform rfkill 
> device and that in turn re-enables the wifi-rfkill "hw" switch device.

Right. That's prety close to the current situation.
 
> If we need to tie them together in software it gets more complicated
> though.

I think we can avoid that, thankfully.

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