netdev - Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/3] rfkill: Create "rfkill-airplane-mode" LED trigger

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Message-ID: <1466501738.3170.10.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:35:38 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux@...lessm.com,
	João Paulo Rechi Vita 
	<jprvita@...lessm.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/3] rfkill: Create "rfkill-airplane-mode" LED
 trigger

On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 23:21 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> (Actually, "::wifi" is super confusing, I'd expect that to be a led
> that blinks when wifi is active.)

Agree with that, yeah, that'd be confusing.

> Well... "airplane" is quite confusing. I'd we use "rfkill" for
> disabling radios, and I believe we should stick with that.
> 
> But small problem might be polarity. You may need both "::rfkill" and
> "::not-rfkill".

I'd argue that "airplane" matches better what you're likely to find on
the chassis of the system.

In either case I think the suffixes should be documented, for both
future kernel and application developers.

johannes