linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/15] rfkill: document rw rfkill switches and clarify input subsystem interactions

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Message-ID: <10083724.1211237793980.JavaMail.oracle@acsmt301.oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 May 2008 17:56:33 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Randy Dunlap <RANDY.DUNLAP@...CLE.COM>
To:	Elias Oltmanns <eo@...ensachen.de>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] rfkill: document rw rfkill switches and clarify input subsystem interactions

--- Original Message ---
> Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 May 2008 15:48:05 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> [...]
> >> +===============================================================================
> >> +3: Kernel API
> >> +
> >> +To build a driver with rfkill subsystem support, the driver should depend on
> >> +the Kconfig symbol RFKILL; it should _not_ depend on RKFILL_INPUT.
> >> +
> >> +The hardware the driver talks to may be write-only (where the current state
> >> +of the hardware is unknown), or read-write (where the hardware can be queried
> >> +about its current state).
> >> +
> >> +The rfkill class will call the get_state hook of a device every time it needs
> >> +to know the *real* current state of the hardware.  This can happen often.
> >> +
> >> +Some hardware provide events when its status change.  In these cases, it is
> >
> >                  provides
> 
> Wouldn't that be "changes" as welll?

Yes.  Thanks.

~Randy


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