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Re: [PATCH/RFC] rfkill: prevent unnecessary event generation

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Hi Henrique,

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 06 Sep 2012, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> > Prevent unnecessary rfkill event generation when the state has
> > not actually changed. These events have to be delivered to
> > relevant userspace processes, causing these processes to wake
> > up and do something while they could as well have slept. This
> > obviously results in more CPU usage, longer time-to-sleep-again
> > and therefore higher power consumption.
>
> Could this supress the first event when a switch is registered? Would that
> be a concern?

I'm not sure I got your question, but just in case, rfkill is
initialized to all zeroes so rfkill->state is 0 and on each consequent
_real_ change there (prev != curr) == true and the event will be
generated.

~Vitaly
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