[PATCH] staging: brcm80211: implementation of RFKILL functionality

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Wed Mar 9 21:31:53 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:44:47PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Resubmitted the patch to be included in the staging-linus branch.
> 
> Only hardware switch state needs to be handled by driver. RFKILL is
> informed when hardware switch is activated. MAC80211 rfkill_poll
> callback is used to check hardware switch deactivation.

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.

confused,

greg k-h



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