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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-15 11:31:54 +1100 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-15 11:31:54 +1100 |
commit | 6dc6472581f693b5fc95aebedf67b4960fb85cf0 (patch) | |
tree | 06a5a9a08519950575505273eabced331ed51405 /Documentation/rfkill.txt | |
parent | ee673eaa72d8d185012b1027a05e25aba18c267f (diff) | |
parent | 8acd3a60bcca17c6d89c73cee3ad6057eb83ba1e (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'origin'
Manual fixup of conflicts on:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/dcr-regs.h
drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.h
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diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt index 6fcb3060dec5..b65f0799df48 100644 --- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt +++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt @@ -341,6 +341,8 @@ key that does nothing by itself, as well as any hot key that is type-specific 3.1 Guidelines for wireless device drivers ------------------------------------------ +(in this text, rfkill->foo means the foo field of struct rfkill). + 1. Each independent transmitter in a wireless device (usually there is only one transmitter per device) should have a SINGLE rfkill class attached to it. @@ -363,10 +365,32 @@ This rule exists because users of the rfkill subsystem expect to get (and set, when possible) the overall transmitter rfkill state, not of a particular rfkill line. -5. During suspend, the rfkill class will attempt to soft-block the radio -through a call to rfkill->toggle_radio, and will try to restore its previous -state during resume. After a rfkill class is suspended, it will *not* call -rfkill->toggle_radio until it is resumed. +5. The wireless device driver MUST NOT leave the transmitter enabled during +suspend and hibernation unless: + + 5.1. The transmitter has to be enabled for some sort of functionality + like wake-on-wireless-packet or autonomous packed forwarding in a mesh + network, and that functionality is enabled for this suspend/hibernation + cycle. + +AND + + 5.2. The device was not on a user-requested BLOCKED state before + the suspend (i.e. the driver must NOT unblock a device, not even + to support wake-on-wireless-packet or remain in the mesh). + +In other words, there is absolutely no allowed scenario where a driver can +automatically take action to unblock a rfkill controller (obviously, this deals +with scenarios where soft-blocking or both soft and hard blocking is happening. +Scenarios where hardware rfkill lines are the only ones blocking the +transmitter are outside of this rule, since the wireless device driver does not +control its input hardware rfkill lines in the first place). + +6. During resume, rfkill will try to restore its previous state. + +7. After a rfkill class is suspended, it will *not* call rfkill->toggle_radio +until it is resumed. + Example of a WLAN wireless driver connected to the rfkill subsystem: -------------------------------------------------------------------- |