Search Linux Wireless

Re: Question about rfkill

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 07:59 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Johannes,
> 
> > No need, radio_enabled is intended to be removed, because if you rfkill
> > now cfg80211 will force the interfaces down. Some time later way may
> > need to add a way to disable just the radio again, but that will be
> > different and for different purposes.
> 
> In b43/b43legacy, the driver can determine when the hw has required an
> rfkill, but what is the "approved" method for determining if userspace
> has killed it?

That isn't necessary. In that case, cfg80211 notices that it was killed,
and (via mac80211) ends up calling the ->stop() callback.

johannes

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux