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Re: [PATCH 8/9] rfkill: Userspace control for airplane mode

From Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 8/9] rfkill: Userspace control for airplane mode
Date 2016-02-10 18:20 +0100
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On 2016-02-10 17:53, Dan Williams wrote:
> Yeah, I get that now.  It's just that to me, something called
> "AIRPLANE_MODE_CHANGE" seems like it should actually change airplane
> mode on/off, which implies killing radios.  I wouldn't have had the
> problem if it was named AIRPLANE_MODE_INDICATOR_CHANGE, which makes it
> clear this is simply an indicator and has no actual effect on anything
> other than a LED.

Yeah, I agree. I'm not even sure that it's a good idea to subsume this 
into the regular operations in the API, although that's obviously the 
easiest extension. I'll need to think about that a bit more with the 
code at hand though.

johannes

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Re: [PATCH 8/9] rfkill: Userspace control for airplane mode Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-02-10 17:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 8/9] rfkill: Userspace control for airplane mode Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> - 2016-02-10 18:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 8/9] rfkill: Userspace control for airplane mode Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-02-10 18:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 8/9] rfkill: Userspace control for airplane mode João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@gmail.com> - 2016-02-16 16:20 +0100

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