Re: [PATCH 1/1] toshiba_acpi: Add support for bluetooth toggling through rfkill (v2)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008, Philip Langdale wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> Well, the textbook way to connect that to rfkill is something like this,
>> please check if it makes sense:
>>
>> Export (1) as a input device (you have events to hook to when it changes
>> state) or polled input device (you don't have said events).  Do NOT register
>> (1) with a struct rfkill at all.  It is purely an input device.
>>
>> DO NOT expose (2) as an input device at all.  Instead, register it to a
>> rfkill struct, of type bluetooth.
>>
>> On the event handler for (1), you issue the EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL input event.
>> Since you *do* know events from (1) are likely to also have messed with the
>> state of (2), you also check (2)'s state at this time and update it through
>> rfkill_force_state().
>>
>> Due to the interaction of 1 and 2, you need to implement and deal with
>> RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED.  Since you do know the firmware will be
>> hard-blocking (2) when (1) is active, you return RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
>> for (2)'s state every time (1) is active.  Otherwise, you return
>> RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED when (2) is blocked, and RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
>> otherwise.
>>
>> This will cause the state of (2) to go to either RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
>> or RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED when (1) changes state.
>>
>> [Note: the above does assume (1) blocks (2) in some way you cannot override,
>> and that trying to unblock (2) while (1) is blocking it is futile].
>>
>> rfkill-input (now) or userspace (someday) will take care of kicking the
>> radio to RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED when (1) issues an event that signals that
>> radios don't have to remain blocked.  Maybe this is why you see the WLAN
>> going on when you deactivate the radio kill switch?
>>
>> And rfkill-input will soon be enhanced to let the user configure it to do
>> something different if he wants.  Your driver doesn't (and shouldn't)
>> hardcode policy about it.
>
> Hmm. So, I've updated the diff to do this, but rfkill-input is not kicking
> the bluetooth device back on after I release the kill switch. it just returns
> to SOFT_UNBLOCKED and stays there.

Hmm?  UNBLOCKED means it is not being rfkilled.  Why is not working?  Put
some debug printks on your toggle_radio callback, that might help fix the
issue...

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