Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Implement rfkill support

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>]

Em Qua 26 Ago 2009, às 12:07:52, Hin-Tak Leung escreveu:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Johannes Berg<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:33 +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> >
> >> > Or wait ... are you using compat-wireless?
> >>
> >> Yes, I am. I mentioned this and did wonder if the _backport/ part
> >> in /sys/class is important.
> >
> > Sorry, didn't see.
> >
> > Anyway, that's pretty clearly the reason -- Luis added NETDEV_PRE_UP to
> > some compat*.h but obviously the kernel won't ever call that notifier,
> > so cfg80211 doesn't get a chance to reject the IFUP. No idea how to
> > handle that -- it'll be working fine in a regular tree.
> >
> > Luis, the only way to handle that would be to manually call the PRE_UP
> > notifier from mac80211's subif_open() and if that returns an error
> > (warning: the calling convention is weird) return the error... that's
> > weird but would work.
> 
> Okay, that explains it. So I can have a Tested-by: ... I just grep for

Ok, I submitted now the patches.

> NETDEV_PRE_UP in compat-wireless and it is only in
> include/net/compat-2.6.31.h (not in 2.6.30) and I am on 2.6.30.5-X . I
> can grab the rawhide 2.6.31 rpms and try it quickly;
> and possibly look at some ugly quick hack backport that? Stay tuned.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Hin-Tak
> 

--
[]'s
Herton