From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "João Paulo Rechi Vita" <jprvita@gmail.com>
Cc: marcel@holtmann.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jprvita@endlessm.com,
linux@endlessm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] rfkill: Remove obsolete "state" sysfs interface
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:15:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453234505.23600.6.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453218163-31998-6-git-send-email-jprvita@endlessm.com> (sfid-20160119_164408_265494_73AD3CE5)
On Tue, 2016-01-19 at 10:42 -0500, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
> This was schedule to be removed in 2014 by:
> -For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt.
> -
> -What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/state
> -Date: 09-Jul-2007
> -KernelVersion v2.6.22
> -Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> -Description: Current state of the transmitter.
> - This file is deprecated and scheduled to be removed
> in 2014,
> - because its not possible to express the 'soft and
> hard block'
> - state of the rfkill driver.
> -Values: A numeric value.
> - 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
> - transmitter is turned off by software
> - 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
> - transmitter is (potentially) active
> - 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
> - transmitter is forced off by something
> outside of
> - the driver's control.
I suspect that nevertheless, we can't just remove it - Googling around
shows quite a bit of (e.g. Android) code using it.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-19 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-19 15:42 [PATCH 0/8] General RFKill improvements João Paulo Rechi Vita
2016-01-19 15:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] rfkill: Documentation and style fixes João Paulo Rechi Vita
[not found] ` <1453218163-31998-2-git-send-email-jprvita-6IF/jdPJHihWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-19 20:11 ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-19 20:19 ` João Paulo Rechi Vita
2016-01-19 15:42 ` [PATCH 2/8] rfkill: Improve code readability João Paulo Rechi Vita
2016-01-19 15:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] " João Paulo Rechi Vita
2016-01-19 15:42 ` [PATCH 4/8] rfkill: Remove obsolete "claim" sysfs interface João Paulo Rechi Vita
2016-01-19 15:42 ` [PATCH 5/8] rfkill: Remove obsolete "state" " João Paulo Rechi Vita
2016-01-19 20:15 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-01-19 20:36 ` João Paulo Rechi Vita
2016-01-19 20:44 ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-19 15:42 ` [PATCH 6/8] rfkill: Move user_state_from_blocked() close to its user João Paulo Rechi Vita
2016-01-19 15:42 ` [PATCH 7/8] rfkill: Update userspace API documentation João Paulo Rechi Vita
[not found] ` <1453218163-31998-1-git-send-email-jprvita-6IF/jdPJHihWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-19 15:42 ` [PATCH 8/8] rfkill: Factor common code João Paulo Rechi Vita
[not found] ` <1453218163-31998-9-git-send-email-jprvita-6IF/jdPJHihWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-19 17:39 ` kbuild test robot
2016-01-19 20:32 ` João Paulo Rechi Vita
2016-01-19 18:15 ` kbuild test robot
2016-01-26 13:08 ` [PATCH 0/8] General RFKill improvements Johannes Berg
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