From: vasanthakumar thiagarajan <vasanth.thiagarajan@atheros.com>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@Atheros.com>,
Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ath9k: Add RF kill support.
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:23:38 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C62B82.3030700@atheros.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080908151057.GB22081@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:45:47PM +0530, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>>
>>>> CONFIG_ATH9K_RFKILL needs to be set
>>>> to enable this support.
>>>>
>>> why do we have to introduce yet another config option for this? What is
>>> the advantage of disabling RFKILL support? I really don't see it and all
>>> these extra config options are rather confusing than useful.
>>>
>> Normally home users may not hit a situation where they have to
>> disable the radio, so they can compile out the rf kill support
>> and essentially disable the periodic run of the work queue
>> (rfkill_poll ,runs for every 2 secs).If this does not make
>> any sense, I will remove this config option.
>>
>
> What doesn't make sense at all is to have it manually selectable. Just
> define it to the same value of CONFIG_RFKILL, or use CONFIG_RFKILL directly
> outright.
>
ok, thanks.
Vasanth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-06 12:38 [PATCH] Ath9k: Add RF kill support Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2008-09-06 17:15 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-06 17:19 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-06 17:23 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-07 1:00 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-07 7:17 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-07 11:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-09-07 12:40 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-07 0:57 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-08 4:59 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2008-09-08 5:22 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-08 5:38 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2008-09-08 15:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-09-09 7:53 ` vasanthakumar thiagarajan [this message]
2008-09-07 12:09 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-09-08 5:20 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-09 5:33 Mats Johannesson
2008-09-09 15:34 [PATCH] ath9k: " Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2008-09-09 15:42 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-09 16:22 ` vasanthakumar thiagarajan
2008-09-09 15:46 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-09 16:02 ` vasanthakumar thiagarajan
2008-09-09 16:15 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-09-09 16:15 ` vasanthakumar thiagarajan
2008-09-09 16:19 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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