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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, don@syst.com.br,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net, rpurdie@rpsys.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] classmate-laptop: Add RFKILL support.
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:22:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100427162227.GA5645@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1272384900-3982-1-git-send-email-cascardo@holoscopio.com>

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:15:00PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> The RFKILL device shares the same ACPI device used for backlight. So, it
> required a new struct sharing both a backlight_device and a rfkill
> device.

Is this purely a software-controlled toggle, or can the firmware change 
the state as well? If the latter, how is synchronisation between 
hardware and OS state handled?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-27 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-27 16:15 [PATCH] classmate-laptop: Add RFKILL support Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2010-04-27 16:22 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-04-27 16:32   ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2010-05-07 18:18     ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-09 10:28 ` Alan Jenkins
2010-06-09 18:19   ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2010-06-09 18:32     ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-09 18:58       ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2010-06-09 19:39         ` [PATCH] classmate-laptop: should check for NULL as retval for rfkill_alloc Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2010-06-09 19:46           ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-09 19:48             ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2010-06-09 19:49             ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

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