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Re: [PATCHv2 00/10] RFKill airplane-mode indicator

From Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCHv2 00/10] RFKill airplane-mode indicator
Date 2016-02-22 18:10 +0100
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On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 11:36 -0500, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
> This series implements an airplane-mode indicator LED trigger, which
> can be
> used by platform drivers. The default policy have have airplane-mode
> set when
> all the radios known by RFKill are OFF, and unset otherwise. This
> policy can be
> overwritten by one single userspace application at a time using the
> operations
> _AIRPLANE_MODE_INDICATOR_ACQUIRE and _AIRPLANE_MODE_INDICATOR_CHANGE.
> 
Double-check your commit messages on some of these patches; they didn't
get updated to add INDICATOR.

Dan

> When the
> airplane-mode indicator state changes, userspace gets notifications
> through the
> RFKill control misc device (/dev/rfkill).
> 
> The series also contains a few general fixes and improvements to the
> subsystem.
> 
> Additionally, I have a couple of patches to have this feature
> supported by the
> userspace tool 'rfkill' [1]. Should I use a different subject prefix
> to help
> separate those from kernel patches in linux-wireless?
> 
> [1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/rfkill
> 
> João Paulo Rechi Vita (10):
>   rfkill: Improve documentation language
>   rfkill: Remove extra blank line
>   rfkill: Point to the correct deprecated doc location
>   rfkill: Move "state" sysfs file back to stable
>   rfkill: Factor rfkill_global_states[].cur assignments
>   rfkill: Add documentation about LED triggers
>   rfkill: Create "rfkill-airplane-mode" LED trigger
>   rfkill: Use switch to demux userspace operations
>   rfkill: Userspace control for airplane mode
>   rfkill: Notify userspace of airplane-mode state changes
> 
>  Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill |  20 ----
>  Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill   |  27 ++++-
>  Documentation/rfkill.txt                      |  17 +++
>  include/uapi/linux/rfkill.h                   |   6 +
>  net/rfkill/core.c                             | 162
> ++++++++++++++++++++------
>  5 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill
> 

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[PATCHv2 00/10] RFKill airplane-mode indicator "João Paulo Rechi Vita" <jprvita@gmail.com> - 2016-02-22 17:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCHv2 00/10] RFKill airplane-mode indicator Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> - 2016-02-22 18:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCHv2 00/10] RFKill airplane-mode indicator João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@gmail.com> - 2016-02-22 20:40 +0100

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