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
next prev parent 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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