[PATCH] staging: brcm80211: implementation of RFKILL functionality

[Arend van Spriel]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:31:53 +0100, Greg KH <gregkh at suse.de> wrote:

> Wait, why would this go to the -stable tree?  Does it fix a real
> problem, as described it only looks like you are adding new
> functionality to the driver, which is not allowed in -stable releases.
Hi Greg,

That was indeed the reason why this was initially posting to staging-next  
only. However, users of the driver have been using the rf button and found  
it freezing up their system (see our email exchange title "brcm80211: the  
system freezes if booted with laptop wifi switch to OFF"). You could argue  
that they should read the TODO/README/wireless twiki and not touch the RF  
button when using this driver.

 From the thread I concluded you were ok with these changes going into  
linus tree. We are still good at confusing each other ;-) It turned out  
that the patch also still contained my debug printk code so probably best  
to ignore the patch. Let me know whether you will accept a corrected patch  
for this or leave it.

Gr. AvS
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