rfkill is a module in the linux kernel that can kill all radio signals. So, it controls every bluetooth, wifi, gps and gsm device. The fact that Android use all that kind of devices makes rfkill a logical choise for Android to use.
Peter 2010/3/12 pavan savoy <pavan.sa...@gmail.com> > Why not the chip manufacturers decide - how best to turn on their chip and > move the system/bluetooth/bluedroid project under hardware/libhardware 'ala > wifi, so that manufacturer is free to have his own functions. > > regards, > Pavan > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Nick Pelly <npe...@google.com> wrote: > >> What do you suggest as an alternative? >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:15 PM, pavan savoy <pavan.sa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Android when it wants to turn BT on, write's 1 onto the rfkill entry >> (which >> > has type bluetooth), >> > and up until now this is the reason we had wl127x_rfkill.c on OMAP or >> > board-*-rfkill.c on MSM. >> > >> > However a hci_register_dev from 2.6.32 also creates and rfkill entry by >> the >> > same type - bluetooth. >> > >> > Now both or any of these rfkill entries may be used, unfortunately we >> have >> > to manually change the permissions of either of them. >> > This can be put in the init.rc if BT driver exists in kernel by default, >> but >> > by this we cannot have it as a module and hotplug it into the kernel as >> and >> > when required. >> > >> > So my question is - why is this turning on of rfkill entry so very >> > desperately required in android. >> > As Dmitry Torokhov quoted "Well, this just indicates that this portion >> of >> > Android code is sploppy" >> > -- >> > --Pavan Savoy >> > >> > -- >> > unsubscribe: >> > android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-kernel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel >> >> -- >> unsubscribe: >> android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-kernel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > > > > > -- > --Pavan Savoy > > -- > unsubscribe: > android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-kernel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
