It seems that enabling soft blocking on virtual instances of rfkill is
sticky. For example (using 2.6.31-rc4),
rtg@lanai:~$ uname -r
2.6.31-4-generic
rtg@lanai:~$ rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
rtg@lanai:~$ sudo rfkill block all
[sudo] password for rtg:
rtg@lanai:~$ rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
rtg@lanai:~$ sudo rfkill unblock all
rtg@lanai:~$ rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Shouldn't I be able to unblock everything at one fell swoop? As long as
dell-wifi remains hard blocked, wireless will not reconnect. I've
observed this behavior on both iwl3945 as well as iwlagn. Dunno if its
driver specific, but I suspect not because I see similar behaviors on
platforms with bluetooth.
rtg
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Tim Gardner [email protected]
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 20:11 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > Tim Gardner (3):
> > Added a utility function to acquire a list of events.
> > Added rfkill_block_all()
> > Added support for block/unblock wireless types.
>
> do you mind sending the actual patches. I like to review them.
I already merged them, reverted the first, and made it use the
CHANGE_ALL functionality.
johannes
Tim Gardner wrote:
> It seems that enabling soft blocking on virtual instances of rfkill is
> sticky. For example (using 2.6.31-rc4),
>
> rtg@lanai:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.31-4-generic
> rtg@lanai:~$ rfkill list
> 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: no
> 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: no
> rtg@lanai:~$ sudo rfkill block all
> [sudo] password for rtg:
> rtg@lanai:~$ rfkill list
> 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: yes
> Hard blocked: no
> 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: yes
> rtg@lanai:~$ sudo rfkill unblock all
> rtg@lanai:~$ rfkill list
> 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: yes
> 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: no
>
> Shouldn't I be able to unblock everything at one fell swoop? As long as
> dell-wifi remains hard blocked, wireless will not reconnect. I've
> observed this behavior on both iwl3945 as well as iwlagn. Dunno if its
> driver specific, but I suspect not because I see similar behaviors on
> platforms with bluetooth.
>
> rtg
So, Johannes pointed out that 'all' was not a valid option to
block/unblock (doh!). Since that is something I think a lot of folks
would like to be able to do, I've added support for blocking by wireless
type as well as 'all'.
Please pull:
The following changes since commit 2c3cbb3ae38dd6100ca03d7060b1a0704311d18b:
Johannes Berg (1):
bump version to 0.1
are available in the git repository at:
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/rfkill master
Tim Gardner (3):
Added a utility function to acquire a list of events.
Added rfkill_block_all()
Added support for block/unblock wireless types.
rfkill.c | 127
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--
Tim Gardner [email protected]
Hi Tim,
> > It seems that enabling soft blocking on virtual instances of rfkill is
> > sticky. For example (using 2.6.31-rc4),
> >
> > rtg@lanai:~$ uname -r
> > 2.6.31-4-generic
> > rtg@lanai:~$ rfkill list
> > 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
> > Soft blocked: no
> > Hard blocked: no
> > 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
> > Soft blocked: no
> > Hard blocked: no
> > rtg@lanai:~$ sudo rfkill block all
> > [sudo] password for rtg:
> > rtg@lanai:~$ rfkill list
> > 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
> > Soft blocked: yes
> > Hard blocked: no
> > 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
> > Soft blocked: no
> > Hard blocked: yes
> > rtg@lanai:~$ sudo rfkill unblock all
> > rtg@lanai:~$ rfkill list
> > 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
> > Soft blocked: no
> > Hard blocked: yes
> > 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
> > Soft blocked: no
> > Hard blocked: no
> >
> > Shouldn't I be able to unblock everything at one fell swoop? As long as
> > dell-wifi remains hard blocked, wireless will not reconnect. I've
> > observed this behavior on both iwl3945 as well as iwlagn. Dunno if its
> > driver specific, but I suspect not because I see similar behaviors on
> > platforms with bluetooth.
> >
> > rtg
>
> So, Johannes pointed out that 'all' was not a valid option to
> block/unblock (doh!). Since that is something I think a lot of folks
> would like to be able to do, I've added support for blocking by wireless
> type as well as 'all'.
>
> Please pull:
>
> The following changes since commit 2c3cbb3ae38dd6100ca03d7060b1a0704311d18b:
> Johannes Berg (1):
> bump version to 0.1
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/rfkill master
>
> Tim Gardner (3):
> Added a utility function to acquire a list of events.
> Added rfkill_block_all()
> Added support for block/unblock wireless types.
do you mind sending the actual patches. I like to review them.
Regards
Marcel