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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] rfkill: add the GPS radio type
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:18:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249229882.3491.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240908020343j7308e215vc1914244c8cd191a@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Tomas,

> >> > we don't have a GPS subsystem, but even without it, I think this is a
> >> > good thing to have.
> >>
> >> GPS devices are usually serial devices.
> >
> > Yeah, this is interesting -- do we want something like /dev/urfkill
> > (cf. /dev/uinput), so that gpsd or whatever is controlling the GPS (same
> > applies for 3G) can be controlled with rfkill?
> 
> Sorry don't know much about /dev/uinput what is difference between
> /dev/urfkill and /dev/rfkill, can you be, please more verbose

the uinput allows you to write a input driver in userspace. So with
urfkill you could in theory write a RFKILL switch as a userspace
program.

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-02 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-01 23:36 [PATCH 1/1] rfkill: add the GPS radio type Tomas Winkler
2009-08-02  0:04 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-08-02  5:49   ` Tomas Winkler
2009-08-02  7:45     ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-02 10:43       ` Tomas Winkler
2009-08-02 16:18         ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-08-02 16:28       ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-08-03 14:23         ` Tomas Winkler
2009-08-03 16:24           ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-08-03 16:53             ` Tomas Winkler
2009-08-03 17:02               ` Marcel Holtmann

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