From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Marco Chiappero <marco@absence.it>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rfkill-input to be removed
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:22:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303402951.3597.27.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DAFEAA7.5090003@absence.it>
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 10:28 +0200, Marco Chiappero wrote:
> While working on the the sony-laptop driver, adding support for
> persistent rfkill state storing and adding the SW_RFKILL_ALL switch
> event forwarding to the input core to notify userspace, I realized that
> rfkill-input interferes with correct behavior of the driver, vanishing
> the hardware device state storing.
Yeah we noticed this before with some other drivers. The persistent
stuff seems to only be suitable for a small number of semantics.
> Then, looking at
> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt I realized that rfkill-input
> was scheduled to be removed in 2.6.33, but it's still there in 2.6.39.
> Please remove that code as soon as possible, rfkill input events should
> be handled by user space tools.
Frankly, I don't think we're ready for this yet, most distros don't yet
ship the rfkill daemon.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-21 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-21 8:28 rfkill-input to be removed Marco Chiappero
2011-04-21 13:47 ` Marco Chiappero
2011-04-21 15:51 ` Dan Williams
2011-04-21 16:22 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-04-21 16:45 ` Marco Chiappero
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