Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

Ivo van Doorn
2008-12-10T16:15:30Z

On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 15:09 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> > The final change is that I removed the code for changing the wireless
> > state in response to the txpower configuration in mac80211. Right now, I
> > can't see any way for this to work correctly - if the user disables the
> > radio via rfkill, mac80211 doesn't flag the radio as disabled. As a
> > result, the next time the configuration callback is called, b43
> > reenables the radio again, even though the user has explicitly disabled
> > it. I don't think any of the other drivers handle this case, so I'm not
> > really sure what the best way to handle this in future is. The current
> > situation certainly seems broken.
>
> We're going to have to integrate rfkill with mac80211, but nobody cares.

It's on the rt2x00 todo list since quite some time already in the hope to
find a volunteer who was willing to do it.
I can't promise any patches for at least a month in this area, but I'll see if
I can take a shot at this in a couple of weeks time.

Ivo