Re: [PATCH 2/2] enhance /sys/class/rfkill//state interface

Johannes Berg
2010-02-20T22:14:57Z

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On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 22:40 +0100, florian@mickler.org wrote:
> Introduce a new state-value RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_AND_HARD_BLOCKED
> which is returned only through the sysfs state file.
> The other interfaces are designed so that they don't need this extra
> state.
>
> This allows the sysfs to represent all possible states an rfkill
> driver can
> have.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
> ---
>
> After stumbling over this arbitrary limitation of
> sys/class/rfkill/*/state I
> wondered what would hinder this patch?

This is not backward compatible, so can't be done.

johannes

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