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Re: [PATCH] rfkill: create useful userspace interface

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On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 18:16 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:

> Hmm, this looks more like a core feature than an rfkill-input bug:
> 
> "
>  v4: set default global state from userspace for rfkill hotplug
>     (pointed out by Marcel)
> 
> ...
> 
> +	if (ev.op == RFKILL_OP_CHANGE_ALL) {
> +		if (ev.type == RFKILL_TYPE_ALL) {
> +			enum rfkill_type i;
> +			for (i = 0; i < NUM_RFKILL_TYPES; i++)
> +				rfkill_global_states[i].cur = ev.soft;
> +		} else {
> +			rfkill_global_states[ev.type].cur = ev.soft;
> +		}
> +	}
> 
> 
> It still looks like this global state will apply even if rfkill-input is
> disabled and userspace has not requested OP_CHANGE_ALL; the default
> state will be enforced on hotplug.  If you want to keep this, I think we
> still need my full scheme.

Your text and code quoting are in disconnect -- you're quoting code from
the /dev/rfkill handler. That confuses me. But anyway, yes, we should
probably simply not enforce the global state _iff_ the device set its
own state before registration.

> Eek!  On a related note, what are we doing on resume?  Johannes added it
> in a response to one of my annoying eeepc-laptop scenarios, but I didn't
> look at the code, only the results.  It seems the individual devices are
> forced into the _global_ states (indexed by device type) on resume.  I
> thought you were trying to neuter these global states so userspace had
> full discretion?  Shouldn't we just restore the individual device state?

Yes, that seems like a bug.

johannes

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