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Commit 5005657c authored by Henrique de Moraes Holschuh's avatar Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Committed by John W. Linville
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rfkill: rename the rfkill_state states and add block-locked state



The current naming of rfkill_state causes a lot of confusion: not only the
"kill" in rfkill suggests negative logic, but also the fact that rfkill cannot
turn anything on (it can just force something off or stop forcing something
off) is often forgotten.

Rename RFKILL_STATE_OFF to RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED (transmitter is blocked
and will not operate; state can be changed by a toggle_radio request), and
RFKILL_STATE_ON to RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED (transmitter is not blocked, and may
operate).

Also, add a new third state, RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED (transmitter is blocked
and will not operate; state cannot be changed through a toggle_radio request),
which is used by drivers to indicate a wireless transmiter was blocked by a
hardware rfkill line that accepts no overrides.

Keep the old names as #defines, but document them as deprecated.  This way,
drivers can be converted to the new names *and* verified to actually use rfkill
correctly one by one.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Acked-by: default avatarIvo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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