linux/net/wimax
Johannes Berg 19d337dff9 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>
2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
..
Kconfig rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
Makefile wimax: Add netlink interface to get device state 2009-05-28 18:02:20 -07:00
debug-levels.h wimax: Add netlink interface to get device state 2009-05-28 18:02:20 -07:00
debugfs.c wimax: Add netlink interface to get device state 2009-05-28 18:02:20 -07:00
id-table.c wimax: fix oops in wimax_dev_get_by_genl_info() when looking up non-wimax iface 2009-02-12 17:00:20 -08:00
op-msg.c wimax: document why wimax_msg_*() operations can be used in any state 2009-05-28 18:02:04 -07:00
op-reset.c wimax: basic API: kernel/user messaging, rfkill and reset 2009-01-07 10:00:17 -08:00
op-rfkill.c rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
op-state-get.c wimax: Add netlink interface to get device state 2009-05-28 18:02:20 -07:00
stack.c wimax: Add netlink interface to get device state 2009-05-28 18:02:20 -07:00
wimax-internal.h wimax: internal API for the kernel space WiMAX stack 2009-01-07 10:00:16 -08:00