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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-06-02 13:01:37 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -0400 |
| commit | 19d337dff95cbf76edd3ad95c0cee2732c3e1ec5 (patch) | |
| tree | 33326eeb09cb9664cc8427a5dc7cd2b08b5a57c3 /include/net | |
| parent | 0f6399c4c525b518644a9b09f8d6fb125a418c4d (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/wimax.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/wimax.h b/include/net/wimax.h index 6b3824edb39..2af7bf839f2 100644 --- a/include/net/wimax.h +++ b/include/net/wimax.h @@ -253,7 +253,6 @@ struct net_device; struct genl_info; struct wimax_dev; -struct input_dev; /** * struct wimax_dev - Generic WiMAX device @@ -293,8 +292,8 @@ struct input_dev; * See wimax_reset()'s documentation. * * @name: [fill] A way to identify this device. We need to register a - * name with many subsystems (input for RFKILL, workqueue - * creation, etc). We can't use the network device name as that + * name with many subsystems (rfkill, workqueue creation, etc). + * We can't use the network device name as that * might change and in some instances we don't know it yet (until * we don't call register_netdev()). So we generate an unique one * using the driver name and device bus id, place it here and use @@ -316,9 +315,6 @@ struct input_dev; * * @rfkill: [private] integration into the RF-Kill infrastructure. * - * @rfkill_input: [private] virtual input device to process the - * hardware RF Kill switches. - * * @rf_sw: [private] State of the software radio switch (OFF/ON) * * @rf_hw: [private] State of the hardware radio switch (OFF/ON) |