Re: [PATCH 6/8] rfkill: add the WWAN radio type

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Fri Apr 11 2008 - 16:53:37 EST


On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Unfortunately, instead of adding a generic Wireless WAN type, a technology-
> > specific type (WiMAX) was added. That's useless for other WWAN devices,
> > such as EDGE, UMTS, X-RTT and other such radios.
> >
> > Add a WWAN rfkill type for generic wireless WAN devices. No keys are added
> > as most devices use KEY_RADIO for WWAN control and need no specific keycode
> > added.
>
> I know it is easier to complain than to submit code, but at this
> point, shouldn't we make this dynamic? [so that the interested technology
> that provides an rfkill switch registers it?].

I wouldn't have anything against that, but we do need to coalesce the
types when possible, otherwise the "type" notion becomes useless for
rfkill-input.

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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