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From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rfkill: clarify usage of rfkill_force_state() and rfkill->get_state()
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:12:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809182012.18723.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221760328.9262.94.camel@johannes.berg>

On Thursday 18 September 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:32 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> 
> > Ideal situation would indeed be that mac80211 registers a rfkill structure
> > and listens to rfkill events. This would help drivers by only needing to
> > register a rfkill structure for state-change events without any need for
> > listeners.
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > I was considering such a patch some time ago, but needed to figure out
> > how to work with the state-override capabilities (HW_BLOCK and SOFT_BLOCK)
> > and didn't work on it any further since.
> 
> So make the struct part of the hw structure? Then drivers can just use
> that to force hard events. Or actually, no, don't do this, make a new
> mac80211 call:
> 
> 	ieee80211_inform_hardblocked(BLOCK/OPEN)
> 
> which makes sure we can also try to not associate in this case in the
> future...

Yeah, unfortunately that wasn't the probablematic part. ;)
Anyway when I have some time available I'll see if I can sort it out and
make it work. But that will not be for another week or 2.

Ivo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-18 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080918145236.GJ1583@khazad-dum.debian.net>
2008-09-18 15:19 ` [PATCH] rfkill: clarify usage of rfkill_force_state() and rfkill->get_state() Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-09-18 15:24   ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-09-18 16:43     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-09-18 16:45       ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-18 17:32         ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-09-18 17:52           ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-18 18:12             ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2008-09-18 17:40       ` Ivo van Doorn

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