On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:16:34PM +0100, Jaroslav Nahorny wrote: > > Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Jaroslav Nahorny <jaroslav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> [1] I know it's a far analogy, but let's try to imagine: > >> Let's disable wifi hardware by default. Why? Because some people are not > >> aware of this feature. They want to use their eth interface, and having > >> wireless interface turned on produces unnecessary „noise” and confusion. > >> If somebody wants to use wifi, they can enable it. > >> Seems legit, right? > > > > As far as I can tell Fedora doesn't automatically connect to Wifi > > networks it hasn't encountered before. You have to explicitly tell it > > to connect. Then, once you have enabled it, it may reconnect > > automatically thereafter. So yes, this seems not only legit; it seems > > to be reality. > > I didn't mean connecting (or not) to wireless networks, but disabling > hardware from normal operation. This is what we are at the moment doing > with touchpads. We are disabling a feature those devices have built-in. you're aware that tapping is a pure software feature? if we didn't implement it in the driver, it wouldn't exist. Cheers, Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
