Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] b43: remove input device usage for rfkill
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>,
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	Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:21:10 +0200
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> So, please accept my appologies on the tone of the last email.  Please
> reconsider reading that email in full, and please try to ignore the rantn=
ess
> smell in it.  I did try to explain the technical reasons why some changes
> would be needed in b43.

Ok. I actually did read it but decided not to reply to most things. I
don't think it's that everybody needs to be educated on the input layer
(I've written real input drivers before) but rather that nobody really
knows how userspace/kernel interaction wrt. rfkill should work.

> > To address one point though: userspace does want a notification when th=
e
> > hw-rfkill is activated so it (e.g. network manager) can ask people to
> > un-rfkill their device.
>=20
> I tried to add such notifications directly to the rfkill class.  rfkill n=
ow
> issues uevents and calls a notification chain for any state changes.  It =
has
> been modified to differentiate hw-rfkill from sw-rfkill, and export that
> information to userspace for network-manager and other applications to us=
e.

Sounds good.

johannes

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