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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-06-30 15:08:12 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-06-30 15:08:12 +0300
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Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2018-06-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Small merge conflict in net/mac80211/scan.c, I preserved the kcalloc() conversion. -DaveM Johannes Berg says: ==================== This round's updates: * finally some of the promised HE code, but it turns out to be small - but everything kept changing, so one part I did in the driver was >30 patches for what was ultimately <200 lines of code ... similar here for this code. * improved scan privacy support - can now specify scan flags for randomizing the sequence number as well as reducing the probe request element content * rfkill cleanups * a timekeeping cleanup from Arnd * various other cleanups ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rfkill.txt18
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill
index e1ba4a104753..80151a409d67 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ KernelVersion: v2.6.22
Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Description: The rfkill class subsystem folder.
Each registered rfkill driver is represented by an rfkillX
- subfolder (X being an integer > 0).
+ subfolder (X being an integer >= 0).
What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/name
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Description: Current state of the transmitter.
This file was scheduled to be removed in 2014, but due to its
large number of users it will be sticking around for a bit
- longer. Despite it being marked as stabe, the newer "hard" and
- "soft" interfaces should be preffered, since it is not possible
+ longer. Despite it being marked as stable, the newer "hard" and
+ "soft" interfaces should be preferred, since it is not possible
to express the 'soft and hard block' state of the rfkill driver
through this interface. There will likely be another attempt to
remove it in the future.
diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt
index a289285d2412..7d3684e81df6 100644
--- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ rfkill - RF kill switch support
Introduction
============
-The rfkill subsystem provides a generic interface to disabling any radio
+The rfkill subsystem provides a generic interface for disabling any radio
transmitter in the system. When a transmitter is blocked, it shall not
radiate any power.
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The rfkill subsystem is composed of three main components:
* the rfkill drivers.
The rfkill core provides API for kernel drivers to register their radio
-transmitter with the kernel, methods for turning it on and off and, letting
+transmitter with the kernel, methods for turning it on and off, and letting
the system know about hardware-disabled states that may be implemented on
the device.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ ways for userspace to query the current states. See the "Userspace support"
section below.
When the device is hard-blocked (either by a call to rfkill_set_hw_state()
-or from query_hw_block) set_block() will be invoked for additional software
+or from query_hw_block), set_block() will be invoked for additional software
block, but drivers can ignore the method call since they can use the return
value of the function rfkill_set_hw_state() to sync the software state
instead of keeping track of calls to set_block(). In fact, drivers should
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ keeps track of soft and hard block separately.
Kernel API
==========
-
Drivers for radio transmitters normally implement an rfkill driver.
Platform drivers might implement input devices if the rfkill button is just
@@ -75,14 +74,14 @@ a way to turn on/off the transmitter(s).
For some platforms, it is possible that the hardware state changes during
suspend/hibernation, in which case it will be necessary to update the rfkill
-core with the current state is at resume time.
+core with the current state at resume time.
To create an rfkill driver, driver's Kconfig needs to have::
depends on RFKILL || !RFKILL
to ensure the driver cannot be built-in when rfkill is modular. The !RFKILL
-case allows the driver to be built when rfkill is not configured, which
+case allows the driver to be built when rfkill is not configured, in which
case all rfkill API can still be used but will be provided by static inlines
which compile to almost nothing.
@@ -91,7 +90,7 @@ rfkill drivers that control devices that can be hard-blocked unless they also
assign the poll_hw_block() callback (then the rfkill core will poll the
device). Don't do this unless you cannot get the event in any other way.
-RFKill provides per-switch LED triggers, which can be used to drive LEDs
+rfkill provides per-switch LED triggers, which can be used to drive LEDs
according to the switch state (LED_FULL when blocked, LED_OFF otherwise).
@@ -114,7 +113,7 @@ a specified type) into a state which also updates the default state for
hotplugged devices.
After an application opens /dev/rfkill, it can read the current state of all
-devices. Changes can be either obtained by either polling the descriptor for
+devices. Changes can be obtained by either polling the descriptor for
hotplug or state change events or by listening for uevents emitted by the
rfkill core framework.
@@ -127,8 +126,7 @@ environment variables set::
RFKILL_STATE
RFKILL_TYPE
-The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and
+The content of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and
"type" sysfs files explained above.
-
For further details consult Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill.