Document the rfkill sysfs ABI

This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
ABI subfolder and reformats it.

This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in
2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file).

Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support
+
+For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt.
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/state
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
+Description: 	Current state of the transmitter.
+		This file is deprecated and sheduled to be removed in 2014,
+		because its not possible to express the 'soft and hard block'
+		state of the rfkill driver.
+Values: 	A numeric value.
+		0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
+			transmitter is turned off by software
+		1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
+			transmitter is (potentially) active
+		2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
+			transmitter is forced off by something outside of
+			the driver's control.
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/claim
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
+Description:	This file is deprecated because there no longer is a way to
+		claim just control over a single rfkill instance.
+		This file is scheduled to be removed in 2012.
+Values: 	0: Kernel handles events

Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support
+
+For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt.
+
+For the deprecated /sys/class/rfkill/*/state and
+/sys/class/rfkill/*/claim knobs of this interface look in
+Documentation/ABI/obsolte/sysfs-class-rfkill.
+
+What: 		/sys/class/rfkill
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.22
+Contact:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
+Description: 	The rfkill class subsystem folder.
+		Each registered rfkill driver is represented by an rfkillX
+		subfolder (X being an integer > 0).
+
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/name
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
+Description: 	Name assigned by driver to this key (interface or driver name).
+Values: 	arbitrary string.
+
+
+What: 		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/type
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
+Description: 	Driver type string ("wlan", "bluetooth", etc).
+Values: 	See include/linux/rfkill.h.
+
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/persistent
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
+Description: 	Whether the soft blocked state is initialised from non-volatile
+		storage at startup.
+Values: 	A numeric value.
+		0: false
+		1: true

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -520,6 +520,24 @@ Who:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
 
 ----------------------------
 
+What:	sysfs-class-rfkill state file
+When:	Feb 2014
+Files:	net/rfkill/core.c
+Why: 	Documented as obsolete since Feb 2010. This file is limited to 3
+	states while the rfkill drivers can have 4 states.
+Who: 	anybody or Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: 	sysfs-class-rfkill claim file
+When:	Feb 2012
+Files:	net/rfkill/core.c
+Why:	It is not possible to claim an rfkill driver since 2007. This is
+	Documented as obsolete since Feb 2010.
+Who: 	anybody or Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
+
+----------------------------
+
 What:	capifs
 When:	February 2011
 Files:	drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.*

Documentation/rfkill.txt

@@ -99,37 +99,15 @@ system. Also, it is possible to switch all rfkill drivers (or all drivers of
 a specified type) into a state which also updates the default state for
 hotplugged devices.
 
-After an application opens /dev/rfkill, it can read the current state of
+After an application opens /dev/rfkill, it can read the current state of all
-all devices, and afterwards can poll the descriptor for hotplug or state
+devices. Changes can be either obtained by either polling the descriptor for
-change events.
+hotplug or state change events or by listening for uevents emitted by the
+rfkill core framework.
 
-Applications must ignore operations (the "op" field) they do not handle,
+Additionally, each rfkill device is registered in sysfs and emits uevents.
-this allows the API to be extended in the future.
 
-Additionally, each rfkill device is registered in sysfs and there has the
+rfkill devices issue uevents (with an action of "change"), with the following
-following attributes:
+environment variables set:
-
-	name: Name assigned by driver to this key (interface or driver name).
-	type: Driver type string ("wlan", "bluetooth", etc).
-	persistent: Whether the soft blocked state is initialised from
-	            non-volatile storage at startup.
-	state: Current state of the transmitter
-		0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
-			transmitter is turned off by software
-		1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
-			transmitter is (potentially) active
-		2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
-			transmitter is forced off by something outside of
-			the driver's control.
-	       This file is deprecated because it can only properly show
-	       three of the four possible states, soft-and-hard-blocked is
-	       missing.
-	claim: 0: Kernel handles events
-	       This file is deprecated because there no longer is a way to
-	       claim just control over a single rfkill instance.
-
-rfkill devices also issue uevents (with an action of "change"), with the
-following environment variables set:
 
 RFKILL_NAME
 RFKILL_STATE
@@ -137,3 +115,7 @@ RFKILL_TYPE
 
 The contents of these variables corresponds to the "name", "state" and
 "type" sysfs files explained above.
+
+
+For further details consult Documentation/ABI/stable/dev-rfkill and
+Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill.