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Commit 74e13060 authored Jul 03, 2013 by Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville Jul 22, 2013

ath9k: make rfkill configurable



When the platform doesn't have rfkill support, i.e. nothing
is connected to the rfkill GPIO, there's little value in
polling the GPIO. Add a Kconfig option to allow disabling
the polling in ath9k.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 3266d732

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig

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		@@ -96,6 +96,16 @@ config ATH9K_LEGACY_RATE_CONTROL
		has to be passed to mac80211 using the module parameter,
		ieee80211_default_rc_algo.

		config ATH9K_RFKILL
		bool "Atheros ath9k rfkill support" if EXPERT
		depends on ATH9K
		depends on RFKILL=y \|\| RFKILL=ATH9K
		default y
		help
		Say Y to have ath9k poll the RF-Kill GPIO every couple of
		seconds. Turn off to save power, but enable it if you have
		a platform that can toggle the RF-Kill GPIO.

		config ATH9K_HTC
		tristate "Atheros HTC based wireless cards support"
		depends on USB && MAC80211

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c

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		@@ -2504,7 +2504,7 @@ int ath9k_hw_fill_cap_info(struct ath_hw *ah)
		else
		pCap->rts_aggr_limit = (8 * 1024);

		#if defined(CONFIG_RFKILL) \|\| defined(CONFIG_RFKILL_MODULE)
		#ifdef CONFIG_ATH9K_RFKILL
		ah->rfsilent = ah->eep_ops->get_eeprom(ah, EEP_RF_SILENT);
		if (ah->rfsilent & EEP_RFSILENT_ENABLED) {
		ah->rfkill_gpio =