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author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-06-03 04:17:59 -0400 |
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committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-06-03 14:06:15 -0400 |
commit | f71fea23a27ba8ec53375832aab6a80fc14622e0 (patch) | |
tree | 277692f96525aa4eae979fb4c97c83b2ea2eef9e | |
parent | 2ec2c68c11af95075f29e370970eb97c89234e2e (diff) |
rfkill: document /dev/rfkill
Add some blurb about /dev/rfkill to the documentation and
fix the "transmiter" spelling error.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rfkill.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt index de941e309d47..1b74b5f30af4 100644 --- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt +++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt | |||
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ The following sysfs entries exist for every rfkill device: | |||
113 | 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED | 113 | 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED |
114 | transmitter is turned off by software | 114 | transmitter is turned off by software |
115 | 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED | 115 | 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED |
116 | transmiter is (potentially) active | 116 | transmitter is (potentially) active |
117 | 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED | 117 | 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED |
118 | transmitter is forced off by something outside of | 118 | transmitter is forced off by something outside of |
119 | the driver's control. | 119 | the driver's control. |
@@ -128,3 +128,9 @@ RFKILL_TYPE | |||
128 | 128 | ||
129 | The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and | 129 | The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and |
130 | "type" sysfs files explained above. | 130 | "type" sysfs files explained above. |
131 | |||
132 | An alternative userspace interface exists as a misc device /dev/rfkill, | ||
133 | which allows userspace to obtain and set the state of rfkill devices and | ||
134 | sets of devices. It also notifies userspace about device addition and | ||
135 | removal. The API is a simple read/write API that is defined in | ||
136 | linux/rfkill.h. | ||