From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT] p54: implement rfkill
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:41:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090819144145.GA5905@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7C58CC.2040708@lwfinger.net>
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:39:40AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:54:15PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> >> This patch gets rid of the deprecated radio_enabled
> >>
> >> fwio.c: In function ‘p54_setup_mac’:
> >> fwio.c:323: warning: ‘radio_enabled’ is deprecated (declared at include/net/mac80211.h:607)
> >
> > Anyone had a chance to test this? And report the results to Christian?
>
> Sorry - I missed this one.
>
> I just tested it. With the patch, the warning is removed. As far as
> system operation, the following is observed:
>
> 1. If b43 is loaded when using p54usb, then the hardware switch will
> kill operation. This behavior is the same with or without this patch.
>
> 2. If b43 is unloaded, then p54usb no longer follows the hardware
> switch, but operation can be killed with the rfkill user-space
> utility. Again, this behavior does not depend on the patch.
>
> Based on the code changes in the patch, it looks as if the radio is
> turned off when the device is blocked, but I have no way to test that.
>
> Christian - please add a
> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> to the patch and
> submit. This change should be in 2.6.32.
>
> Larry
Original patch lacks a Signed-off-by...
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-19 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-19 21:54 [RFT] p54: implement rfkill Christian Lamparter
2009-08-07 15:36 ` John W. Linville
2009-08-07 16:39 ` Larry Finger
2009-08-19 14:41 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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