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    rfkill: add a reason to the HW rfkill state · 14486c82
    Emmanuel Grumbach authored
    The WLAN device may exist yet not be usable. This can happen
    when the WLAN device is controllable by both the host and
    some platform internal component.
    We need some arbritration that is vendor specific, but when
    the device is not available for the host, we need to reflect
    this state towards the user space.
    
    Add a reason field to the rfkill object (and event) so that
    userspace can know why the device is in rfkill: because some
    other platform component currently owns the device, or
    because the actual hw rfkill signal is asserted.
    
    Capable userspace can now determine the reason for the rfkill
    and possibly do some negotiation on a side band channel using
    a proprietary protocol to gain ownership on the device in case
    the device is owned by some other component. When the host
    gains ownership on the device, the kernel can remove the
    RFKILL_HARD_BLOCK_NOT_OWNER reason and the hw rfkill state
    will be off. Then, the userspace can bring the device up and
    start normal operation.
    
    The rfkill_event structure is enlarged to include the additional
    byte, it is now 9 bytes long. Old user space will ask to read
    only 8 bytes so that the kernel can know not to feed them with
    more data. When the user space writes 8 bytes, new kernels will
    just read what is present in the file descriptor. This new byte
    is read only from the userspace standpoint anyway.
    
    If a new user space uses an old kernel, it'll ask to read 9 bytes
    but will get only 8, and it'll know that it didn't get the new
    state. When it'll write 9 bytes, the kernel will again ignore
    this new byte which is read only from the userspace standpoint.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201104134641.28816-1-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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