Re: [PATCH v11] rfkill: rewrite

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:55:16PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2009, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:19:29AM -0400, Will Keaney wrote:
> > > Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
> > > > the following deficiencies:
> > > >   
> > > I applied this to a fresh pull of wireless-testing this morning, and
> > > haven't had any problems from it.  It looks like the soft lockup I
> > > reported earlier has been fixed.
> > 
> > Cool, thanks for the report.
> > 
> > I'm leaning towards merging this in time for the 2.6.31 merge
> > window...who wants to complain? :-)
> 
> As long as the missing userspace control functionality (the lack of which is
> a _serious_ regression for platform drivers) is added before 2.6.31 ships, I
> have no complains.
> 
> Userspace must be able to change the (soft) state using sysfs.  This is
> not an optional part of rfkill :-)

Are there any apps that actually use this feature?  It seems like
that even if there are apps, they need to handle drivers that don't
support it.

John
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