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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-06-02 13:01:37 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-06-03 14:06:13 -0400
commit19d337dff95cbf76edd3ad95c0cee2732c3e1ec5 (patch)
tree33326eeb09cb9664cc8427a5dc7cd2b08b5a57c3 /include/net
parent0f6399c4c525b518644a9b09f8d6fb125a418c4d (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.h8
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)