Re: eeepc-laptop rfkill, stupid question #4 and 5

[Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 05:09:09PM +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>   
>> Did you miss a call to rfkill_force_state() on resume?
>>     
>
> Conceivably. I didn't test the hibernation case.
>
>   
>> Actually, normal boot doesn't preserve the setting either.  Your commit
>> changes the behaviour from the rfkill state being persistent across
>> reboot / power off (as a bios setting), to being always enabled on
>> boot.  It seems like a bad idea to me.
>>     
>
> This is the behaviour of the rfkill core.
>   
Documentation/rfkill.txt implied otherwise

    You should:
        - rfkill_allocate()
        - modify rfkill fields (flags, name)
        - modify state to the current hardware state (THIS IS THE ONLY TIME
          YOU CAN ACCESS state DIRECTLY)
        - rfkill_register()


Admittedly it doesn't say "and I promise not to gratuitously override
the state on registration".  Buti t seems weird though, to override the
value on registration instead of just setting a default in
rfkill_allocate().

Thanks
Alan