linux/drivers/net/wireless/b43
Johannes Berg 19d337dff9 rfkill: rewrite
This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:

 * all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
   rather than having one central implementation

 * updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
   contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
   lots of code

 * rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
   internally -- the core should do this

 * the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
   asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister

 * rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
   driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
   should be avoided

 * rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module

 * drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
   depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
   that do nothing if it isn't compiled in

 * the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
   it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
   force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()

 * the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
   reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS

 * the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
   operations in locked sections

 * fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
   changes -- this wasn't done before

Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
..
b43.h
debugfs.c
debugfs.h
dma.c
dma.h
Kconfig rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
leds.c rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
leds.h
lo.c
lo.h
main.c rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
main.h
Makefile
pcmcia.c
pcmcia.h
phy_a.c rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
phy_a.h
phy_common.c rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
phy_common.h rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
phy_g.c rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
phy_g.h
phy_lp.c rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
phy_lp.h
phy_n.c rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
phy_n.h
pio.c
pio.h
rfkill.c rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
rfkill.h rfkill: rewrite 2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
sysfs.c
sysfs.h
tables_lpphy.c
tables_lpphy.h
tables_nphy.c
tables_nphy.h
tables.c
tables.h
wa.c
wa.h
xmit.c
xmit.h