Re: [PATCH 4/8] rfkill: add read-write rfkill switch support

[Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>]

On Monday 14 April 2008, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> On Monday 14 April 2008 13:00:41 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > > See rt2x00 and b43 in driver-wireless for an example implementation
> > > > of pollable input device and rfkill
> > >
> > > They're broken by design, at least in b43's case.  Someone (Carlos, I
> > > believe?) posted an example of a ping-pong scenario using b43.
> >
> > Thats true. But was that a scenario where there were 2 keys for the same
> > radio type? Or was that a matter of the driver indicating a key pressed
> > event while it has no attached key to it, and only checked the register for
> > the key status and the current radio status and saw it was different?
> 
> Two part problem:
> 
> 1) Bug in rfkill; rfkill is toggling all devices in the same state, and not 
> actually checking the type.
> 
> (I submitted a patch for this on Sunday, although I sent it to linux-wireless 
> before you sent the MAINTAINERS patch with netdev as the official list; but I 
> did CC you on it regardless so you should have seen this. If not, let me know 
> and I'll resend it).

Completely overlooked the patch.
I found it in my archives and just acked it. :)

Ivo

> 2) The cycle-of-doom bug, as described earlier.
> 
> This still applies.
> 
> Yes, b43 can also be fixed not to emit a keycode if it cannot control the 
> rfkill switch; but that doesn't solve the case of what happens if both the 
> wireless driver and the platform driver can control the radio.
> 
> I agree wholeheartedly with Henrique here though - wireless drivers should 
> _not_ be using key press events as a reporting mechanism.
> 
> -Carlos