Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:33:00 +0200
From: Mats Johannesson <spamcan1@abrasax.se>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, marcel@holtmann.org,
	vasanth@atheros.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ath9k: Add RF kill support.
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:52:20AM +0530, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
And Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan replied:
[...]
> > > Normally home users may not hit a situation where they have to
> > > disable the radio, so they can compile out the rf kill support
> > > and essentially disable the periodic run of the work queue
> > > (rfkill_poll ,runs for every 2 secs).If this does not make
> > > any sense, I will remove this config option.
[...]
> > The desktop use case needs RFKILL support, because that will be used
> > for switching off the radio. Just think about the flight mode case.
> > So the only case where disabling RFKILL support makes sense would be
> > an embedded system with specific constraints. However even in the
> > embedded case, I don't see that usefulness.
> >
> Yeah, I understand.

My 'rfkill' solution is to pull the PCCard out of the notebook slot!
Please, make it configurable. I don't want useless code running in my
sleek kernel (especially polling code...)

Mvh
Mats Johannesson