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authorflorian@mickler.org <florian@mickler.org>2010-02-24 06:05:16 -0500
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-03-10 17:09:33 -0500
commit69c86373c6ea1149aa559e6088362d58d8ec8835 (patch)
treea3d76c3182a5a604b8a40aba7a2e197ffdd6114d /Documentation/ABI/obsolete
parent75a9a92625a7d7401d04209f4226061cd2674b59 (diff)
Document the rfkill sysfs ABI
This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the ABI subfolder and reformats it. This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in 2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file). Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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1rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support
2
3For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt.
4
5What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/state
6Date: 09-Jul-2007
7KernelVersion v2.6.22
8Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
9Description: Current state of the transmitter.
10 This file is deprecated and sheduled to be removed in 2014,
11 because its not possible to express the 'soft and hard block'
12 state of the rfkill driver.
13Values: A numeric value.
14 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
15 transmitter is turned off by software
16 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
17 transmitter is (potentially) active
18 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
19 transmitter is forced off by something outside of
20 the driver's control.
21
22What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/claim
23Date: 09-Jul-2007
24KernelVersion v2.6.22
25Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
26Description: This file is deprecated because there no longer is a way to
27 claim just control over a single rfkill instance.
28 This file is scheduled to be removed in 2012.
29Values: 0: Kernel handles events