wok-current annotate rfkill/description.txt @ rev 25279
updated rfkill (0.5 -> 1.0)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Mon Jul 18 15:03:30 2022 +0100 (2022-07-18) |
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Hans-G?nter@25279 | 1 Rfkill is a small userspace tool to query the state of the rfkill switches, |
Hans-G?nter@25279 | 2 buttons and subsystem interfaces. |
Hans-G?nter@25279 | 3 Some devices come with a hard switch that lets you kill different types of |
Hans-G?nter@25279 | 4 RF radios: 802.11, Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, WAN, WIMAX, FM. |
Hans-G?nter@25279 | 5 Some times these buttons may kill more than one RF type. |
Hans-G?nter@25279 | 6 The Linux kernel rfkill subsystem exposes these hardware buttons and lets |
Hans-G?nter@25279 | 7 userspace query its status and set its status through a /dev/rfkill. |
Hans-G?nter@25279 | 8 Given that at times some RF devices do not have hardware rfkill buttons |
Hans-G?nter@25279 | 9 rfkill the Linux kernel also exposes software rfkill capabilities that |
Hans-G?nter@25279 | 10 allows userspace to mimic a hardware rfkill event and turn on or off RF. |