Subject: Re: hal, rfkill and compat-wireless (Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187:
 Implement 	rfkill support)
From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:10:32 -0700
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On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 17:05 -0600, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Marcel Holtmann<marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> >> Hi Luis,
> >>
> >>> > OK not so bad except for:
> >>> >
> >>> > > kernel/net/wimax/wimax.ko
> >>> >
> >>> > That's touching another subsystem but we could technically merge wimax
> >>> > into compat-wireless if Inaky thinks that's a good idea. the point
> >>> > here is to unify anything that uses rfkill for backport usage.
> >>>
> >>> Oh boy, can of worms
> >>>
> >>> I have my own compat-wimax already, which already handles things for
> >>> backwards compat (many #ifdef hacks to simplify life) and which is
> >>> heavily used internally.
> >>>
> >>> I don't really know how much worth it might be and I know I don't have
> >>> resources to support both.
> >>
> >> for the wireless-compat tree, I would just remove the RFKILL support for
> >> WiMAX. It is really not worth to support it.
> >
> > Works for me, we then still need to address (if we really care) the
> > platform stuff. If someone is interested feel free to send patches to
> > add those, I figure as long we get down to the latest supported stable
> > kernel it should be good. The latest supported stable kernel is always
> > on display on kernel,org, today being 2.6.27.
> 
> BTW inaky -- this is actually up to you, are you wiling to live with
> no rfkill for compat?

I don't really mind -- but it could be a problem for anyone trying to
use it. Not that I recommend not being able to switch the radio off :)
however, the WiMAX stack has APIs for it too, so at least there is a
workaround.

But remember, I won't be able to support it at all.

-- 
-- Inaky