Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:56019 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751456AbYLOSBE (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:01:04 -0500 Subject: Re: Fuijtsu Lifebook RFKILL support From: Dan Williams To: tony@linx.net Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Len Brown , Ivo van Doorn , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au, Peter Gruber , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1229361241.13400.1.camel@localhost> References: <1228957506.4045.11.camel@localhost> <20081211165247.GA4844@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1229016827.6446.6.camel@localhost> <20081211194734.GA18132@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1229046602.4030.13.camel@localhost> <20081212195331.GA12679@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1229172465.4010.11.camel@localhost> <20081213132857.GA11428@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1229274343.6775.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081215115336.GD17648@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1229354348.12163.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1229361241.13400.1.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:59:44 -0500 Message-Id: <1229363984.12163.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> (sfid-20081215_190109_958887_3179D2C6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 17:14 +0000, Tony Vroon wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:19 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > I plan to beat the shit out of the hal killswitch support pretty soon. > > AFAIK it still doesn't know about softblock, which is part of the whole > > reason for the rfkill rewrite in 2.6.26 anyway. It also doesn't yet > > (AFAIK) support uevents from killswitches either, which sucks. > > Thanks Dan. > Could you let me know when you've committed this code so I have another > shot at implementing rfkill reporting in fujitsu-laptop? Yeah, though the HAL support will be coded to the kernel rfkill devices, so if the platform or the wifi driver supports the kernel rfkill interface, the HAL bits should work. > P.S. Did you get my e-mail about the Sierra Wireless MC8790? Yes; it's hal-info commit 8912ec2b5d0a221a74156c047b18a26b2d916e13. Dan