linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2 update] misc: Add dell-laptop driver

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Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:05:47 -0200
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	none <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@...l.com, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 update] misc: Add dell-laptop driver

(I feel weird replying to "none" :-) )

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008, none wrote:
> > +		wifi_rfkill->get_state = dell_wifi_get;
> 
> The rfkill doc (and code) say that you also need to initialize
> wifi_rfkill->state to the current state of the hardware.

I may have screwed up and ommited from the docs the fact that it is not
strictly necessary to do so if you provide rfkill->get_state.  So that is
not a serious problem with the patch at all.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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