From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>,
Alex Hung <alex.hung@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] platform: x86: dell-rbtn: Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:01:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201411242301.55012@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141124215026.GA14361@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Monday 24 November 2014 22:50:26 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 09:55:47PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > This is complicated. HW switch controls all radio devices
> > and you do not know which are present in specified running
> > machine. Also list of devices which HW switch controls can
> > be edited in BIOS (on some machines). So what to do? We
> > only know that it controls some devices...
>
> Typically there'll be a firmware method that provides a mask
> of the controlled devices. Do you have the ACPI tables for a
> device that implements this? Registering an rfkill interface
> that claims to only control wifi but which also kills other
> devices is likely to confuse userspace - it would probably be
> better to avoid registering the rfkill interface at all in
> that case.
Currently you cannot control soft state of rfkill. It receive
events when hard state was changed and update hard rfkill status
(if is enabled or disabled).
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-23 15:09 [PATCH 0/3] Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver Pali Rohár
2014-11-23 15:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] platform: x86: dell-rbtn: " Pali Rohár
2014-11-24 20:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-11-24 20:55 ` Pali Rohár
2014-11-24 21:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-11-24 22:01 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2014-11-28 11:33 ` Mika Westerberg
2014-11-28 11:45 ` Pali Rohár
2014-11-28 11:54 ` Mika Westerberg
2014-11-25 21:58 ` Darren Hart
2014-11-23 15:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] platform: x86: dell-rbtn: Export notifier for other kernel modules Pali Rohár
2014-11-25 22:39 ` Darren Hart
2015-04-29 9:55 ` Pali Rohár
2014-11-23 15:09 ` [PATCH 3/3] platform: x86: dell-laptop: Use dell-rbtn instead i8042 filter when possible Pali Rohár
2014-11-25 23:05 ` [PATCH 0/3] Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver Darren Hart
2014-12-02 8:42 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-04 8:16 ` Alex Hung
2014-12-03 12:56 ` Darren Hart
2014-12-04 9:55 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-03 13:00 ` Darren Hart
2014-12-05 20:38 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-05 20:53 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-05 21:03 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-05 21:12 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-05 21:23 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-05 21:49 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-22 7:27 ` Alex Hung
2014-12-22 9:21 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-22 12:35 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-22 19:16 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-24 9:13 ` Alex Hung
2014-12-24 11:40 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-25 3:13 ` Alex Hung
2014-12-25 20:11 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-25 21:55 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-29 7:27 ` Alex Hung
2014-12-29 8:32 ` Pali Rohár
2015-01-05 9:55 ` Alex Hung
2015-04-24 7:39 ` Alex Hung
2015-04-29 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 " Pali Rohár
2015-04-29 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] platform: x86: dell-rbtn: " Pali Rohár
2015-04-29 10:30 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-04-29 13:08 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-29 13:57 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-04-29 16:28 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-29 17:54 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-04-29 18:00 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-29 18:11 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-04-29 18:16 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-29 18:41 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-04-29 18:59 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-30 6:06 ` Alex Hung
2015-04-30 7:44 ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-02 13:51 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-05-02 15:13 ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-05 20:31 ` Darren Hart
2015-05-05 21:23 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-05-06 5:55 ` Darren Hart
2015-05-06 7:49 ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-06 9:34 ` Alex Hung
2015-04-29 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] platform: x86: dell-rbtn: Export notifier for other kernel modules Pali Rohár
2015-04-29 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] platform: x86: dell-laptop: Use dell-rbtn instead i8042 filter when possible Pali Rohár
2015-05-03 10:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver Pali Rohár
2015-05-05 20:37 ` Darren Hart
2015-05-05 21:24 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-05-06 7:58 ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-06 9:11 ` Alex Hung
2015-05-06 11:31 ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-06 21:57 ` Darren Hart
2015-05-07 2:24 ` Alex Hung
2015-05-13 11:48 ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-13 18:38 ` Darren Hart
2015-05-14 10:54 ` [PATCH v3 " Pali Rohár
2015-05-14 10:54 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] dell-rbtn: " Pali Rohár
2015-05-14 10:54 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] dell-rbtn: Export notifier for other kernel modules Pali Rohár
2015-05-22 22:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-05-23 1:05 ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-24 5:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-05-24 11:42 ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-14 10:54 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] dell-laptop: Use dell-rbtn instead i8042 filter when possible Pali Rohár
2015-05-18 18:07 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver Darren Hart
2015-05-27 21:28 ` [PATCH v4 " Pali Rohár
2015-05-27 21:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] dell-rbtn: " Pali Rohár
2015-05-27 21:28 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] dell-rbtn: Export notifier for other kernel modules Pali Rohár
2015-05-27 21:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] dell-laptop: Use dell-rbtn instead i8042 filter when possible Pali Rohár
2015-05-28 2:52 ` Darren Hart
2015-06-03 3:55 ` Darren Hart
2015-06-03 8:15 ` Pali Rohár
2015-06-04 5:16 ` Darren Hart
2015-06-06 8:24 ` Pali Rohár
2015-06-06 8:23 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver Pali Rohár
2015-06-06 8:23 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] dell-rbtn: " Pali Rohár
2015-06-06 8:23 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] dell-rbtn: Export notifier for other kernel modules Pali Rohár
2015-06-06 8:23 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] dell-laptop: Use dell-rbtn instead i8042 filter when possible Pali Rohár
2015-06-08 4:12 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver Darren Hart
2015-06-08 7:30 ` Pali Rohár
2015-06-11 4:55 ` Darren Hart
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