Commit f71fea23 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville

rfkill: document /dev/rfkill

Add some blurb about /dev/rfkill to the documentation and
fix the "transmiter" spelling error.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 2ec2c68c
...@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ The following sysfs entries exist for every rfkill device: ...@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ The following sysfs entries exist for every rfkill device:
0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
transmitter is turned off by software transmitter is turned off by software
1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
transmiter is (potentially) active transmitter is (potentially) active
2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
transmitter is forced off by something outside of transmitter is forced off by something outside of
the driver's control. the driver's control.
...@@ -128,3 +128,9 @@ RFKILL_TYPE ...@@ -128,3 +128,9 @@ RFKILL_TYPE
The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and
"type" sysfs files explained above. "type" sysfs files explained above.
An alternative userspace interface exists as a misc device /dev/rfkill,
which allows userspace to obtain and set the state of rfkill devices and
sets of devices. It also notifies userspace about device addition and
removal. The API is a simple read/write API that is defined in
linux/rfkill.h.
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