From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 09:38:02 +0000 (-0300) Subject: rfkill.txt: standardize document format X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~5129^2~21 X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=317a8455f18383bf339c3ff0e461c5d9fdcb0b3d;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git rfkill.txt: standardize document format Each text file under Documentation follows a different format. Some doesn't even have titles! Change its representation to follow the adopted standard, using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx: - mark titles; - comment contents index; - mark literal blocks; - adjust identation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt index 8c174063b3f0..a289285d2412 100644 --- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt +++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ +=============================== rfkill - RF kill switch support =============================== -1. Introduction -2. Implementation details -3. Kernel API -4. Userspace support +.. contents:: + :depth: 2 -1. Introduction +Introduction +============ The rfkill subsystem provides a generic interface to disabling any radio transmitter in the system. When a transmitter is blocked, it shall not @@ -21,17 +21,24 @@ aircraft. The rfkill subsystem has a concept of "hard" and "soft" block, which differ little in their meaning (block == transmitters off) but rather in whether they can be changed or not: - - hard block: read-only radio block that cannot be overridden by software - - soft block: writable radio block (need not be readable) that is set by - the system software. + + - hard block + read-only radio block that cannot be overridden by software + + - soft block + writable radio block (need not be readable) that is set by + the system software. The rfkill subsystem has two parameters, rfkill.default_state and -rfkill.master_switch_mode, which are documented in admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst. +rfkill.master_switch_mode, which are documented in +admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst. -2. Implementation details +Implementation details +====================== The rfkill subsystem is composed of three main components: + * the rfkill core, * the deprecated rfkill-input module (an input layer handler, being replaced by userspace policy code) and @@ -55,7 +62,8 @@ use the return value of rfkill_set_hw_state() unless the hardware actually keeps track of soft and hard block separately. -3. Kernel API +Kernel API +========== Drivers for radio transmitters normally implement an rfkill driver. @@ -69,7 +77,7 @@ For some platforms, it is possible that the hardware state changes during suspend/hibernation, in which case it will be necessary to update the rfkill core with the current state is at resume time. -To create an rfkill driver, driver's Kconfig needs to have +To create an rfkill driver, driver's Kconfig needs to have:: depends on RFKILL || !RFKILL @@ -87,7 +95,8 @@ RFKill provides per-switch LED triggers, which can be used to drive LEDs according to the switch state (LED_FULL when blocked, LED_OFF otherwise). -5. Userspace support +Userspace support +================= The recommended userspace interface to use is /dev/rfkill, which is a misc character device that allows userspace to obtain and set the state of rfkill @@ -112,11 +121,11 @@ 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: +environment variables set:: -RFKILL_NAME -RFKILL_STATE -RFKILL_TYPE + RFKILL_NAME + RFKILL_STATE + RFKILL_TYPE The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and "type" sysfs files explained above.