From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Chiappero Subject: rfkill-input to be removed Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:28:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4DAFEAA7.5090003@absence.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from aa012-1msr.fastwebnet.it ([62.101.93.132]:60501 "EHLO aa012-1msr.fastwebnet.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753504Ab1DUI21 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:28:27 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. 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.