rfkill: document /dev/rfkill Add some blurb about /dev/rfkill to the documentation and fix the "transmiter" spelling error. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/rfkill.txt b/Documentation/rfkill.txt index de941e3..1b74b5f 100644 --- a/Documentation/rfkill.txt +++ b/Documentation/rfkill.txt
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED transmitter is turned off by software 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED - transmiter is (potentially) active + transmitter is (potentially) active 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED transmitter is forced off by something outside of the driver's control. @@ -128,3 +128,9 @@ The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and "type" sysfs files explained above. + +An alternative userspace interface exists as a misc device /dev/rfkill, +which allows userspace to obtain and set the state of rfkill devices and +sets of devices. It also notifies userspace about device addition and +removal. The API is a simple read/write API that is defined in +linux/rfkill.h.