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@@ -99,37 +99,15 @@ system. Also, it is possible to switch all rfkill drivers (or all drivers of
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, and afterwards can poll the descriptor for hotplug or state
-change events.
-
-Applications must ignore operations (the "op" field) they do not handle,
-this allows the API to be extended in the future.
-
-Additionally, each rfkill device is registered in sysfs and there has the
-following attributes:
-
- name: Name assigned by driver to this key (interface or driver name).
- type: Driver type string ("wlan", "bluetooth", etc).
- persistent: Whether the soft blocked state is initialised from
- non-volatile storage at startup.
- state: Current state of the transmitter
- 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
- transmitter is turned off by software
- 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
- transmitter is (potentially) active
- 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
- transmitter is forced off by something outside of
- the driver's control.
- This file is deprecated because it can only properly show
- three of the four possible states, soft-and-hard-blocked is
- missing.
- claim: 0: Kernel handles events
- This file is deprecated because there no longer is a way to
- claim just control over a single rfkill instance.
-
-rfkill devices also issue uevents (with an action of "change"), with the
-following environment variables set:
+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
+hotplug or state change events or by listening for uevents emitted by the
+rfkill core framework.
+
+Additionally, each rfkill device is registered in sysfs and emits uevents.
+
+rfkill devices issue uevents (with an action of "change"), with the following
+environment variables set:
RFKILL_NAME
RFKILL_STATE
@@ -137,3 +115,7 @@ RFKILL_TYPE
The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and
"type" sysfs files explained above.
+
+
+For further details consult Documentation/ABI/stable/dev-rfkill and
+Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill.