From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Fabien Crespel <fabien@crespel.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] rfkill: add parameter to disable radios by default
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:49:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214344159.11980.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48615925.8010203@crespel.net>
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 22:29 +0200, Fabien Crespel wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote :
> > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 19:06 +0200, Fabien Crespel wrote:
> >
> >> Indeed, I think it would be better to let the driver choose the default state
> >> (initialization) instead of forcing it when registering. This would allow drivers
> >> to restore the device state after a reboot or shutdown (provided the firmware
> >> stores it, which is the case at least on my ASUS F3JC laptop).
> >>
> >
> > Do you mean your laptop BIOS stores the value in nvram somewhere? What
> > specific driver reads that value back out?
> >
> > Dan
> >
> Yes, the laptop BIOS stores the value. Reading it back is done the same
> way as reading the WLAN/BT status later (through an ACPI method), so the
> driver only has to read and write the status at initialization to
> restore the device status & LEDs (because the reported status doesn't
> reflect the hardware status at boot time).
Yeah, but what driver -is- that? asus-laptop or something?
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-23 20:22 [GIT PATCH] rfkill rework for 2.6.27 (v3) Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:22 ` [PATCH 01/13] rfkill: clarify meaning of rfkill states Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:22 ` [PATCH 02/13] rfkill: fix minor typo in kernel doc Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:22 ` [PATCH 03/13] rfkill: handle SW_RFKILL_ALL events Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:22 ` [PATCH 04/13] rfkill: add parameter to disable radios by default Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-24 14:05 ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2008-06-24 17:06 ` Fabien Crespel
2008-06-24 17:56 ` Dan Williams
2008-06-24 20:29 ` Fabien Crespel
2008-06-24 21:49 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2008-06-25 7:23 ` Fabien Crespel
2008-06-24 23:17 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-25 8:11 ` Fabien Crespel
2008-06-25 14:02 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-24 17:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:23 ` [PATCH 05/13] rfkill: add read-write rfkill switch support Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:23 ` [PATCH 06/13] rfkill: add the WWAN radio type Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:23 ` [PATCH 07/13] rfkill: rework suspend and resume handlers Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:23 ` [PATCH 08/13] rfkill: add notifier chains support Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:23 ` [PATCH 09/13] rfkill: add type string helper Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:23 ` [PATCH 10/13] rfkill: add uevent notifications Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:23 ` [PATCH 11/13] rfkill: drop current_state from tasks in rfkill-input Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:49 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-06-23 20:23 ` [PATCH 12/13] rfkill: do not allow userspace to override ALL RADIOS OFF Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-23 20:23 ` [PATCH 13/13] rfkill: document rw rfkill switches and clarify input subsystem interactions Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-26 13:13 ` [GIT PATCH] rfkill rework for 2.6.27 (v3) Dmitry Baryshkov
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