Re: [GIT PATCH] rfkill support for r/w and r/o rfkill switches

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

On Wednesday 16 April 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:26:43PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 April 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> > > If they are coming to me, please collect Ivo's ACKs and resend them
> > > to linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org with me CC'ed as well.
> > 
> > I am going to setup a rfkill git tree from where rfkill can be managed,
> > but I still had to look into the correct git tree to branch from.
> > 
> > We should sort out how the rfkill patch flow should go,
> > directly into net-2.6 or to wireless-2.6/wireless-testing
> > Although rfkill is a wireless tool, one could argue that linux-wireless
> > is mostly aimed at the 802.11 protocol, whereas rfkill applies to
> > irda and bluetooth as well.
> 
> I suppose you could manage it as a separate tree.  Before this round of
> patches, that would have seemed like overkill. :-)  My only argument
> would be that there are probably more users of rfkill in the wireless
> (i.e. wireless LAN) trees than in the Bluetooth, UWB, or WiMAX trees.
> But honestly, it is up to you and Dave.  I'm happy to take the patches
> in my trees or you guys can arrange something else.

Dave, do you want the rfkill patches directly, or should they go through
the wireless tree first?

> Just let me know if you want me to merge them.  Otherwise, I'll drop
> them from my queue.

Well the patches from Henrique shouldn't be applied yet,
since he is reworking several of those patches.

Ivo