On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote: > The setting of the "persistent" flag is also made more explicit using > a new rfkill_init_sw_state() function, instead of special-casing > rfkill_set_sw_state() when it is called before registration. > > Suspend is a bit of a corner case so we try to get away without adding > another hack to rfkill-input - it's going to be removed soon. > If the state does change over suspend, users will simply have to prod > rfkill-input twice in order to toggle the state. > > Userspace policy agents will be able to implement a more consistent user > experience. For example, they can avoid the above problem if they > toggle devices individually. Then there would be no "global state" > to get out of sync. > > Currently there are only two rfkill drivers with persistent soft-blocked > state. thinkpad-acpi already checks the software state on resume. > eeepc-laptop will require modification. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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
