Re: wpi0: radio is disabled by hardware switch

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:33:56PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 02/12/2014 16:11, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Some update on this topic:
> > the wpi driver also turns off IFF_UP when the radio switch is off,
> > exept in one case. The attached patch fixes it.
> > The stream of console message was generated by wpa_supplicant, which
> > is automatically started by dhcpcd. wpa_supplicant tries to bring the
> > interface up once per second. Stopping it stops the messages too.
> > 
> > There's no way to get the radio button events up to userland, execpt with
> > ad-hoc mechanisms (wpi(4) provides a hw.wpi0.radio sysctl, but a userland
> > script has to pool it to get radio button events).
> > It looks like this should be hooked up to powerd(4), which already has
> > notifications for various switches.
> > 
> > I can look at this, with an implementation for wpi(4), unless someone
> > objects to the concept.
> 
> iwi(4) provides hw.iwi0.radio sysctl as well, not that it works when I
> toggle the switch.

For wpi it does, I did check

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