Re: [PATCH] rfkill: parameters documentation

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Jan 05 2015 - 04:24:59 EST


On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 19:01 +0000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This patch documents two rfkill module parameters, namely
> rfkill.default_state and rfkill.master_switch_mode.
>
> I constructed the patch from Ubuntu packaged source, but I'm happy to
> adapt it to any git tree.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrew
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Clausen <andrew.p.clausen@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks fine to me (though the commit message shouldn't contain the email
"boilerplate" of "hi all" etc - should just be

rfkill: document module parameters

Document the two rfkill module parameters "default_state" and
"master_switch_mode".

Signed-off-by: ...


However I'm not sure I should apply this through my tree?

johannes

> ---
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 011855b..824ee3b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -2999,6 +2999,20 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can
> also be entirely omitted.
>
> retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
>
> + rfkill.default_state=
> + 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax,
> + gps, fm, etc. communication is blocked by
> + default.
> + 1 Unblocked.
> +
> + rfkill.master_switch_mode=
> + 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
> + 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between
> + everything blocked and the previous
> + configuration.
> + 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between
> + everything blocked and everything unblocked.
> +
> rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
> Set number of hash buckets for route cache
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt
> index 427e897..2ee6ef9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt
> @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ whether they can be changed or not:
> - soft block: writable radio block (need not be readable) that is set by
> the system software.
>
> +The rfkill subsystem has two parameters, rfkill.default_state and
> +rfkill.master_switch_mode, which are documented in kernel-parameters.txt.
> +
>
> 2. Implementation details
>


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