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author | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2008-10-20 11:17:52 +0900 |
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committer | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2008-10-20 11:17:52 +0900 |
commit | 4cb40f795af36b3deb743f6ccf6c3fd542c61c8d (patch) | |
tree | db3d7519932549bf528f5b8e4cb8350356cd544d /Documentation/rfkill.txt | |
parent | 79ed2a9216dd3cc35c4f2c5dbaddadb195af83ac (diff) | |
parent | 0cfd81031a26717fe14380d18275f8e217571615 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/sh/include/asm/elf.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/rfkill.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rfkill.txt | 32 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt index 6fcb3060dec..b65f0799df4 100644 --- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt +++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt @@ -341,6 +341,8 @@ key that does nothing by itself, as well as any hot key that is type-specific 3.1 Guidelines for wireless device drivers ------------------------------------------ +(in this text, rfkill->foo means the foo field of struct rfkill). + 1. Each independent transmitter in a wireless device (usually there is only one transmitter per device) should have a SINGLE rfkill class attached to it. @@ -363,10 +365,32 @@ This rule exists because users of the rfkill subsystem expect to get (and set, when possible) the overall transmitter rfkill state, not of a particular rfkill line. -5. During suspend, the rfkill class will attempt to soft-block the radio -through a call to rfkill->toggle_radio, and will try to restore its previous -state during resume. After a rfkill class is suspended, it will *not* call -rfkill->toggle_radio until it is resumed. +5. The wireless device driver MUST NOT leave the transmitter enabled during +suspend and hibernation unless: + + 5.1. The transmitter has to be enabled for some sort of functionality + like wake-on-wireless-packet or autonomous packed forwarding in a mesh + network, and that functionality is enabled for this suspend/hibernation + cycle. + +AND + + 5.2. The device was not on a user-requested BLOCKED state before + the suspend (i.e. the driver must NOT unblock a device, not even + to support wake-on-wireless-packet or remain in the mesh). + +In other words, there is absolutely no allowed scenario where a driver can +automatically take action to unblock a rfkill controller (obviously, this deals +with scenarios where soft-blocking or both soft and hard blocking is happening. +Scenarios where hardware rfkill lines are the only ones blocking the +transmitter are outside of this rule, since the wireless device driver does not +control its input hardware rfkill lines in the first place). + +6. During resume, rfkill will try to restore its previous state. + +7. After a rfkill class is suspended, it will *not* call rfkill->toggle_radio +until it is resumed. + Example of a WLAN wireless driver connected to the rfkill subsystem: -------------------------------------------------------------------- |