From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] [sony-laptop] add control over wifi power in Sony laptops Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:32:18 +0000 Message-ID: <20081103103218.GA28263@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1225705280-12775-1-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <1225705280-12775-2-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <1225705280-12775-3-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <1225705280-12775-4-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <1225705280-12775-5-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <1225705280-12775-6-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <1225705280-12775-7-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:41873 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754680AbYKCKcZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 05:32:25 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1225705280-12775-7-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Mattia Dongili Cc: Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Sergey Yanovich 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