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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] rfkill: clarify meaning of rfkill states
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:16:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080608201603.GA25453@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080606141419.GA3444@khazad-dum.debian.net>

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:14:19AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> 1. Every transmitter shall have ONE, and just ONE (not zero, not two,
> not more) rfkill class attached.  For those transmitters lacking support
> in hardware to make it block, the drivers shall quiesce them and avoid
> doing anything to cause transmissions, or even use bus tricks to power
> the device down (i.e. the driver will emulate a switch capable of doing
> the blocking).

How do we enforce this? iwl4965 provides an rfkill device, but hp-wmi 
will also provide one for the wifi. If I swap out the wireless card for 
something else, I may lose the card-specific rfkill device.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-08 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-04  3:10 [GIT PATCH] rkfill improvements for -next Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 01/12] rfkill: clarify meaning of rfkill states Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:32   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-04  3:39     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04 20:27   ` Dan Williams
2008-06-04 20:32     ` Dan Williams
2008-06-04 23:07     ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-05  0:38       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-05  8:33         ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-05 12:38           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-05 12:12         ` Dan Williams
2008-06-05 13:03           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-05 14:46             ` Dan Williams
2008-06-05 20:13               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-06  3:26                 ` Dan Williams
2008-06-06 13:24                   ` Dan Williams
2008-06-06 14:14                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-06 14:27                       ` Dan Williams
2008-06-07 12:09                         ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-08 20:16                       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-06-10  4:11                         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-11 17:10                           ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 18:03                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-12 15:43                           ` Dan Williams
2008-06-12 16:31                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-05 16:03         ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-06-05 16:36           ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-05 17:42             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-05 17:54               ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-05 20:16                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-05 17:53           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 02/12] rfkill: fix minor typo in kernel doc Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 03/12] rfkill: handle SW_RFKILL_ALL events Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 04/12] rfkill: add parameter to disable radios by default Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 05/12] rfkill: add read-write rfkill switch support Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 06/12] rfkill: add the WWAN radio type Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 07/12] rfkill: rework suspend and resume handlers Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 08/12] rfkill: add notifier chains support Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 09/12] rfkill: add type string helper Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 10/12] rfkill: add uevent notifications Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 11/12] rfkill: do not allow userspace to override ALL RADIOS OFF Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-04  3:10 ` [PATCH 12/12] rfkill: document rw rfkill switches and clarify input subsystem interactions Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-22 15:38 [GIT PATCH] rfkill rework for 2.6.27 (v2) Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-22 15:38 ` [PATCH 01/12] rfkill: clarify meaning of rfkill states Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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