linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/15] rfkill: add the WWAN radio type

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Message-Id: <200805202035.20529.inaky@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 20:35:19 -0700
From:	Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] rfkill: add the WWAN radio type

On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 May 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> > > Add a WWAN rfkill type for generic wireless WAN devices.  No keys are added
> > > as most devices really want to use KEY_WLAN for WWAN control (in a cycle of
> > > none, WLAN, WWAN, WLAN+WWAN) and need no specific keycode added.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@...ux.intel.com>

BTW, I just realized this was mistakenly put in your initial patch; 
you signed off for me and also added me to the CC :)
 
> Stuff like "WiMax", "802.1a", "EDGE", "GRPS", "802.1bg" would be the
> type, and class would be "WLAN", "WWAN", etc.
> 
> We would only deal with classes on rfkill-input.  Anything else more
> specific should be done in userspace instead, disabling rfkill-input.

How would this apply to the case where I want to use the HW key to switch
one off and turn the other one off (say I have both a WiMAX and EDGE
cards in my machine); how could we do it to distinguish which key is which?
I might be missing something.

-- 
Inaky
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