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SubjectRe: [PATCH 11/15] rfkill: add notifier chains support
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On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:48 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Add a notifier chain for use by the rfkill class. This notifier chain
> signals the following events (more to be added when needed):
>
> 1. rfkill: rfkill device state has changed
>
> A pointer to the rfkill struct will be passed as a parameter.
>
> The notifier message types have been added to include/linux/rfkill.h
> instead of to include/linux/notifier.h in order to avoid the madness of
> modifying a header used globally (and that triggers an almost full tree
> rebuild every time it is touched) with information that is of interest only
> to code that includes the rfkill.h header.
>
> Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
> ---
> include/linux/rfkill.h | 7 +++++
> net/rfkill/rfkill.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rfkill.h b/include/linux/rfkill.h
> index c0cab7d..98667be 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rfkill.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rfkill.h
> @@ -117,4 +117,11 @@ static inline char *rfkill_get_led_name(struct rfkill *rfkill)
> #endif
> }
>
> +/* rfkill notification chain */
> +#define RFKILL_STATE_CHANGED 0x0001 /* state of a normal rfkill
> + switch has changed */
> +
> +int register_rfkill_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
> +int unregister_rfkill_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
> +
> #endif /* RFKILL_H */
> diff --git a/net/rfkill/rfkill.c b/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
> index f11220b..251defe 100644
> --- a/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
> +++ b/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
> @@ -46,6 +46,49 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(default_state,
>
> static enum rfkill_state rfkill_states[RFKILL_TYPE_MAX];
>
> +static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(rfkill_notifier_list);
> +
> +
> +/**
> + * register_rfkill_notifier - Add notifier to rfkill notifier chain
> + * @nb: pointer to the new entry to add to the chain
> + *
> + * See blocking_notifier_chain_register() for return value and further
> + * observations.
> + *
> + * Adds a notifier to the rfkill notifier chain. The chain will be
> + * called with a pointer to the relevant rfkill structure as a parameter,
> + * refer to include/linux/rfkill.h for the possible events.
> + *
> + * Notifiers added to this chain are to always return NOTIFY_DONE. This
> + * chain is a blocking notifier chain: notifiers can sleep.
> + *
> + * Calls to this chain may have been done through a workqueue. One must
> + * one must assume unordered assynchronous behaviour, there is no way to
One must, one must..., asynchronous
...

Thomas





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