Johannes Berg wrote: > This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address > the following deficiencies: > > * all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary > rather than having one central implementation > > * updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary > contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring > lots of code > > * rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked > internally -- the core should do this > > * the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being > asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister > > * rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the > driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally > should be avoided > > * rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module > Please leave rfkill-input available as a module, at least until the bug I reported in my previous e-mail 'Soft Lockup With rfkill_input and thinkpad_acpi' is resolved. Otherwise it will render Thinkpads, and possibly other systems, unusable with rfkill enabled. Thank you, Will Keaney
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