netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/8] rfkill: Remove obsolete "state" sysfs interface

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Message-ID: <1453236291.25499.0.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:44:51 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...il.com>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	João Paulo Rechi Vita 
	<jprvita@...lessm.com>, linux@...lessm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] rfkill: Remove obsolete "state" sysfs interface

On Tue, 2016-01-19 at 15:36 -0500, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
> 
> > I suspect that nevertheless, we can't just remove it - Googling
> > around shows quite a bit of (e.g. Android) code using it.
> > 
> 
> Should I update the expected removal date to 2018, or some other time
> in the future? Or if this is not going to be removed at all,
> shouldn't it be moved back to stable?
> 

Yeah, maybe we should just move it back. The problem with it is that it
doesn't fully reflect the state (both sw+hw blocked can't be reflected)
but if the current users are happy with it then that's not really a
problem.

johannes