Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/8] rfkill: Remove obsolete "state" sysfs interface | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:15:05 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2016-01-19 at 10:42 -0500, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote: > This was schedule to be removed in 2014 by:
> -For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt. > - > -What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/state > -Date: 09-Jul-2007 > -KernelVersion v2.6.22 > -Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org > -Description: Current state of the transmitter. > - This file is deprecated and scheduled to be removed > in 2014, > - because its not possible to express the 'soft and > hard block' > - state of the rfkill driver. > -Values: A numeric value. > - 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED > - transmitter is turned off by software > - 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED > - transmitter is (potentially) active > - 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED > - transmitter is forced off by something > outside of > - the driver's control.
I suspect that nevertheless, we can't just remove it - Googling around shows quite a bit of (e.g. Android) code using it.
johannes
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