On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:06 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Thursday 18 September 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:52 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > 
> > > From rfkill.h:
> > >   RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED = 0,  /* Radio output blocked */
> > >   RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED    = 1,  /* Radio output allowed */
> > >   RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED = 2,  /* Output blocked, non-overrideable */
> > > 
> > > Since b43 has a rfkill mechanism that does switch of the radio when 
> > > RFKILL is set to BLOCK
> > > after a key press, it should send RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED because 
> > > rfkill cannot override
> > > it.
> > > 
> > > rt2x00 hardware does not change the radio state when RFKILL is set to 
> > > BLOCK after a key press,
> > > the state is therefor overridable and it can send 
> > > RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED to rfkill.
> > 
> > If rt2x00 has no meaning of "hardware blocked", why is the button not a
> > simple input device?
> 
> Because I had that discussion with Henrique and that ended with a "it isn't a 
> input device"...

Why isn't it? If it doesn't affect the hardware itself it might as well
be connected to the ps/2 port for all I care.

johannes

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