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Date:	Wed, 23 May 2012 14:12:41 +0800
From:	Alex Hung <alex.hung@...onical.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC:	linville@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rfkill: Add handling when rfkill's type is RFKILL_TYPE_ALL.

On 05/23/2012 02:46 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 16:37 +0800, Alex Hung wrote:
>> This rfkill type is supposed to be able to toggles the status of all wireless
>> devices; however, no wireless devices will register itself with type
>> RFKILL_TYPE_ALL and thus it was previously ignored in __rfkill_switch_all.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Hung<alex.hung@...onical.com>
>> ---
>>   net/rfkill/core.c |    2 +-
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/rfkill/core.c b/net/rfkill/core.c
>> index 5be1957..84dd71a 100644
>> --- a/net/rfkill/core.c
>> +++ b/net/rfkill/core.c
>> @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ static void __rfkill_switch_all(const enum rfkill_type type, bool blocked)
>>
>>   	rfkill_global_states[type].cur = blocked;
>>   	list_for_each_entry(rfkill,&rfkill_list, node) {
>> -		if (rfkill->type != type)
>> +		if (rfkill->type != type&&  type != RFKILL_TYPE_ALL)
>>   			continue;
>
> Sorry, I accidentally replied to this in private and then Alex replied
> but it all got lost.
>
> He said he was going to change the eeepc use KEY_RFKILL instead of
> KEY_WLAN to switch all types...
>
> So I guess what this change really does is make __rfkill_switch_all() be
> able to not only switch all devices of a given type, but also be able to
> switch all devices of all types.
>
> Alex, can you please rewrite the commit log to make that clearer?
>
> johannes
>

Thanks for your feedback, I re-wrote the comments to clarify the changes 
and re-submitted.

Cheers,
Alex Hung
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