History log of /linux-master/net/rfkill/rfkill.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# d2912cb1 04-Jun-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 19d337df 02-Jun-2009 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

rfkill: rewrite

This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:

* all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
rather than having one central implementation

* updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
lots of code

* rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
internally -- the core should do this

* the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister

* rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
should be avoided

* rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module

* drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
that do nothing if it isn't compiled in

* the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()

* the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS

* the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
operations in locked sections

* fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
changes -- this wasn't done before

Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>