On Mon, 21 May 2007, Richard Hughes wrote: > > I might even find out that we are better off not using rfkill in > > thinkpad-acpi itself, and letting the bluetooth and wwan drivers process it. > > We shall see. > > Less than ideal from a userspace POV, as I really just wanted to write > one bit of glue code in HAL to get all the rfkill stuff to work. It would still work from userspace POV, but only if the bluetooth and whatever drives the WWAN card also implement rfkill. thinkpad-acpi would be used to actually disable/enable the hardware if desired (it defaults to whatever the user told the BIOS to do, anyway)... > > The thinkpad ACPI interface does a lot more than just > > radio-kill, it actually kills power to the *devices* themselves, AFAIK > > (removes them from the USB bus, causing hotunplug events). Anyone with a > > bluetooth and WWAN device, please speak up. > > Yes, so understand. The latter is very important from a powersave point > of view, and I can understand how disconnecting from the bus would nuke > the device, and not allow you to turn on the device with the rfkill > interface. I did not think of this. > > > So far, what I got is that rfkill is all about handling "please disable > > radios" system-wide events, and not about providing drivers with a standard > > sysfs interface to enable/disable radio functionality. At least for now. > > Yes, agreed. For the moment I can bodge it, and just use an addon for > HAL, but I'm guessing other hardware has this issue, and we should > probably fix this the right way. Yes. You will get a sysfs interface to enable/disable bluetooth and WWAN (when it works anyway, it appears thinkpad-acpi WWAN handling is busted on some X60) anyway. But it might not be rfkill. We shall see. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
