This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
ABI subfolder and reformats it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/rfkill.txt | 44 +++++-------------
2 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53a4287
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support
+
+For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt.
+
+What: /sys/class/rfkill
+Date: 09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion: v2.6.22
+Contact: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
+Description: The rfkill class subsystem folder.
+ Each registered rfkill driver is represented by an rfkillX
+ subfolder (X being an integer > 0).
+
+
+What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/name
+Date: 09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion v2.6.22
+Contact: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+Description: Name assigned by driver to this key (interface or driver name).
+Values: arbitrary string.
+
+
+What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/type
+Date: 09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion v2.6.22
+Contact: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+Description: Driver type string ("wlan", "bluetooth", etc).
+Values: See include/linux/rfkill.h.
+
+
+What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/persistent
+Date: 09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion v2.6.22
+Contact: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+Description: Whether the soft blocked state is initialised from non-volatile
+ storage at startup.
+Values: A numeric value.
+ 0: false
+ 1: true
+
+
+What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/state
+Date: 09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion v2.6.22
+Contact: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+Description: Current state of the transmitter. This file is deprecated
+ because it can only properly show three of the four possible
+ states, soft-and-hard-blocked is missing.
+Values: A numeric value.
+ 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
+ transmitter is turned off by software
+ 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
+ transmitter is (potentially) active
+ 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
+ transmitter is forced off by something outside of
+ the driver's control.
+
+
+What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/claim
+Date: 09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion v2.6.22
+Contact: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+Description: This file is deprecated because there no longer is a way to
+ claim just control over a single rfkill instance.
+Values: 0: Kernel handles events
diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt
index b486050..83668e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt
@@ -99,37 +99,15 @@ system. Also, it is possible to switch all rfkill drivers (or all drivers of
a specified type) into a state which also updates the default state for
hotplugged devices.
-After an application opens /dev/rfkill, it can read the current state of
-all devices, and afterwards can poll the descriptor for hotplug or state
-change events.
-
-Applications must ignore operations (the "op" field) they do not handle,
-this allows the API to be extended in the future.
-
-Additionally, each rfkill device is registered in sysfs and there has the
-following attributes:
-
- name: Name assigned by driver to this key (interface or driver name).
- type: Driver type string ("wlan", "bluetooth", etc).
- persistent: Whether the soft blocked state is initialised from
- non-volatile storage at startup.
- state: Current state of the transmitter
- 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
- transmitter is turned off by software
- 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
- transmitter is (potentially) active
- 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
- transmitter is forced off by something outside of
- the driver's control.
- This file is deprecated because it can only properly show
- three of the four possible states, soft-and-hard-blocked is
- missing.
- claim: 0: Kernel handles events
- This file is deprecated because there no longer is a way to
- claim just control over a single rfkill instance.
-
-rfkill devices also issue uevents (with an action of "change"), with the
-following environment variables set:
+After an application opens /dev/rfkill, it can read the current state of all
+devices. Changes can be either obtained by either polling the descriptor for
+hotplug or state change events or by listening for uevents emitted by the
+rfkill core framework.
+
+Additionally, each rfkill device is registered in sysfs and emits uevents.
+
+rfkill devices issue uevents (with an action of "change"), with the following
+environment variables set:
RFKILL_NAME
RFKILL_STATE
@@ -137,3 +115,7 @@ RFKILL_TYPE
The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and
"type" sysfs files explained above.
+
+
+For further details consult Documentation/ABI/stable/dev-rfkill and
+Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill.
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