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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Sergey Yanovich <ynvich@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] [sony-laptop] add control over wifi power in Sony laptops
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:32:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081103103218.GA28263@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225705280-12775-7-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:41:19PM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:

> Sony laptops have a single hardware rfkill switch, which controls
> several wireless devices: wifi, bluetooth, wwan. The code to
> selectively control bluetooth and wwan is already present. This
> patch adds handling of wifi.

Please don't add more custom radio control switches. It'd be better to 
add rfkill support. Otherwise we have even more stuff in /sys to carry 
around for ages before deprecating.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-03  9:41 [PATCH 0/7] sony-laptop for acpi-test Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03  9:41 ` [PATCH 1/7] [sony-laptop] merge Type4 into Type3 Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03  9:41   ` [PATCH 2/7] [sony-laptop] VGN-A317M hotkey support Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03  9:41     ` [PATCH 3/7] [sony-laptop] Eliminate BKL in ioctls Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03  9:41       ` [PATCH 4/7] [sony-laptop] detect the ICH9 chipset as Type3 Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03  9:41         ` [PATCH 5/7] [sony-laptop] call the extra enable function for SNC on Vaio Z Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03  9:41           ` [PATCH 6/7] [sony-laptop] add control over wifi power in Sony laptops Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03  9:41             ` [PATCH 7/7] [sony-laptop] notify the hardware of a state change in wwanpower Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03 10:32             ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-11-03 10:55               ` [PATCH 6/7] [sony-laptop] add control over wifi power in Sony laptops Sergey Yanovich
2008-11-03 10:57                 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-04  8:22         ` [PATCH 4/7] [sony-laptop] detect the ICH9 chipset as Type3 ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
2008-11-04 13:21           ` Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03 11:17 ` [PATCH 0/7] sony-laptop for acpi-test Norbert Preining
2008-11-03 12:48   ` Mattia Dongili
2008-11-03 13:02     ` Norbert Preining

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