From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: rfkill interface (was Re: [PATCH V3] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:54:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709061854.46058.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6ca9fed0709051233h69f66aebi45aac65ab1a96f0e@mail.gmail.com>
> > By default the kernel will act when the rfkill button is pressed, it will loop
> > through all registered buttons of the same type and change the state.
> > Userspace can read the "state" sysfs file to see the current status,
> > but if a userspace tools wants to take control of taking action when the button is pressed,
> > or at least doesn't want the kernel to do anything, 1 should be written to "claim" to
> > tell the kernel that it should back off and ignore all events.
>
> ok thx for explaining this will talk to the nm and hal people about it
> and see how they want things to work than I will create patches to
> implement it.
> which drivers support it now? rt2x00 and ?? or are they the only ones right now?
In wireless-dev it is currently only rt2x00,
But I have heard about work in progress for:
wistron_btns
thinkpad_acpi
MSI S270
I am however not sure about their status.
Ivo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-05 19:33 rfkill interface (was Re: [PATCH V3] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers) dragoran
2007-09-06 0:50 ` Dan Williams
2007-09-06 16:49 ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-09-07 15:25 ` Dan Williams
2007-09-06 16:54 ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
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