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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/8] rfkill: Remove obsolete "state" sysfs interface
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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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