linux/net
Emmanuel Grumbach 14486c8261 rfkill: add a reason to the HW rfkill state
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: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201104134641.28816-1-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2020-12-11 12:47:17 +01:00
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6lowpan
9p net: 9p: Fix kerneldoc warnings of missing parameters etc 2020-11-02 12:25:52 -08:00
802
8021q
appletalk net: appletalk: fix kerneldoc warnings 2020-10-30 11:48:17 -07:00
atm atm: nicstar: Replace in_interrupt() usage 2020-11-18 16:43:55 -08:00
ax25
batman-adv batman-adv: Drop unused soft-interface.h include in fragmentation.c 2020-12-04 08:41:16 +01:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Increment management interface revision 2020-12-07 17:02:00 +02:00
bpf
bpfilter Revert "bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH" 2020-10-15 12:33:24 -07:00
bridge Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-03 15:44:09 -08:00
caif
can can: isotp: add SF_BROADCAST support for functional addressing 2020-12-10 09:31:40 +01:00
ceph libceph: clear con->out_msg on Policy::stateful_server faults 2020-10-12 15:29:27 +02:00
core rtnetlink: RCU-annotate both dimensions of rtnl_msg_handlers 2020-12-10 13:35:59 -08:00
dcb net: dcb: Fix kerneldoc warnings 2020-10-30 11:59:54 -07:00
dccp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-27 18:25:27 -08:00
decnet treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy. 2020-11-16 08:08:54 -08:00
dns_resolver
dsa net: dsa: print the MTU value that could not be set 2020-12-08 11:24:07 -08:00
ethernet net: datagram: fix some kernel-doc markups 2020-11-17 14:15:03 -08:00
ethtool Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-12 16:54:48 -08:00
hsr
ieee802154 treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy. 2020-11-16 08:08:54 -08:00
ife
ipv4 tcp: correctly handle increased zerocopy args struct size 2020-12-10 13:10:32 -08:00
ipv6 net: ipv6: rpl_iptunnel: simplify the return expression of rpl_do_srh() 2020-12-08 16:22:54 -08:00
iucv net/af_iucv: use DECLARE_SOCKADDR to cast from sockaddr 2020-12-08 15:56:53 -08:00
kcm
key
l2tp
l3mdev net: l3mdev: Fix kerneldoc warning 2020-10-30 11:43:42 -07:00
lapb net/lapb: fix t1 timer handling for LAPB_STATE_0 2020-11-27 17:22:51 -08:00
llc net: llc: Fix kerneldoc warnings 2020-10-30 11:34:09 -07:00
mac80211 Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-19 19:08:46 -08:00
mac802154 net: mac802154: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API 2020-11-07 10:40:56 -08:00
mpls mpls: drop skb's dst in mpls_forward() 2020-11-03 12:55:53 -08:00
mptcp mptcp: be careful on subflows shutdown 2020-12-09 19:31:58 -08:00
ncsi net/ncsi: Fix netlink registration 2020-11-12 17:00:13 -08:00
netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-03 15:44:09 -08:00
netlabel Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-19 19:08:46 -08:00
netlink netlink: export policy in extended ACK 2020-10-09 20:22:32 -07:00
netrom
nfc net: sched: fix spelling mistake in Kconfig "trys" -> "tries" 2020-12-08 16:01:56 -08:00
nsh
openvswitch net: openvswitch: conntrack: simplify the return expression of ovs_ct_limit_get_default_limit() 2020-12-08 16:22:54 -08:00
packet Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-27 18:25:27 -08:00
phonet
psample
qrtr wireless-drivers-next patches for v5.11 2020-12-04 10:56:37 -08:00
rds RDMA: Add rdma_connect_locked() 2020-10-28 09:14:49 -03:00
rfkill rfkill: add a reason to the HW rfkill state 2020-12-11 12:47:17 +01:00
rose rose: Fix Null pointer dereference in rose_send_frame() 2020-11-20 10:04:58 -08:00
rxrpc net: rxrpc: convert comma to semicolon 2020-12-09 16:23:07 -08:00
sched net: sched: incorrect Kconfig dependencies on Netfilter modules 2020-12-09 15:49:29 -08:00
sctp sctp: Fix some typo 2020-11-23 17:44:11 -08:00
smc net/smc: Add support for obtaining SMCR device list 2020-12-01 17:56:13 -08:00
strparser
sunrpc net: datagram: fix some kernel-doc markups 2020-11-17 14:15:03 -08:00
switchdev
tipc tipc: support 128bit node identity for peer removing 2020-12-04 17:40:27 -08:00
tls net/tls: make sure tls offload sets salt_size 2020-12-01 17:51:30 -08:00
unix networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
vmw_vsock Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-27 18:25:27 -08:00
wireless Some updates: 2020-11-13 12:03:22 -08:00
x25 net: x25: Fix handling of Restart Request and Restart Confirmation 2020-12-09 19:34:25 -08:00
xdp Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-12-04 07:48:12 -08:00
xfrm net: xfrm: use core API for updating/providing stats 2020-11-14 17:01:08 -08:00
compat.c
devres.c
Kconfig wimax: move out to staging 2020-10-29 19:27:45 +01:00
Makefile wimax: move out to staging 2020-10-29 19:27:45 +01:00
socket.c net: don't include ethtool.h from netdevice.h 2020-11-23 17:27:04 -08:00
sysctl_net.c