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authorCarlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>2008-10-08 21:40:21 +0100
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-10-08 16:55:45 -0400
commit0606e1abfcb66c3a29722162f5d2c7ad8b638237 (patch)
tree9e270c4002f4b532c1492892e50d374390b3b994 /Documentation/laptops
parent4330ed8ed4da360ac1ca14b0fddff4c05b10de16 (diff)
acer-wmi: Add rfkill support for wireless and bluetooth
This patch implements rfkill support for the wireless and bluetooth devices commonly found on Acer laptops. For now, we will always poll these devices once a second to guarantee we can catch state changes. On newer Acer laptops, it may be possible to rely on WMI events to do this instead, and experimental support for this will be added in a later patch. 3G has been deliberately left off for now, as we still have no way to detect it, (nor, AFAIK, has any Linux user tried the code) and on laptops that don't support 3G, trying to poll for the status will leave the logs full of ACPI tracebacks. The old sysfs interface for wireless and bluetooth will be removed in a later patch. (Thanks to Henrique de Moraes Holschuh and Dmitry Torokhov for reviewing this patch). Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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