From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:38385 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757943AbZE0IPa (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 04:15:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 10:07:38 +0200 From: "John W. Linville" To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Will Keaney , Johannes Berg , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH v11] rfkill: rewrite Message-ID: <20090527080737.GB8134@tuxdriver.com> References: <1242942720.4212.19.camel@johannes.local> <1243068246.4606.45.camel@johannes.local> <4A1BDE51.7020009@gmail.com> <20090526131533.GA3932@tuxdriver.com> <20090527025516.GC22235@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20090527025516.GC22235@khazad-dum.debian.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.