Re: Adding rfkill support to thinkpad_acpi

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On 5/21/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Has there been any work on implementing rfkill for thinkpad_acpi? If
> > there is nobody working on this I am offering to add support into
> > thinkpad_acpi this week.
>
> Yes, I have been talking to the rfkill people, but we had some disagreements
> on how to best to it.  I let it rest for a week or so to think better about
> some issues they raised, and also in order not to waste too much bandwidth
> from either side of the issue.
>
> Basically, I want a "fetch data from the hardware to know what state it is
> in for real" interface.  They want a "find a way to make sure the hardware
> is doing what we told it to do" interface.
>
> 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.  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.

On my t41p, fn-f5 "unplugs" the bluetooth chip from the USB bus.  For
the mini-pci atheros wifi, fn-f5 seems to turn off the radio only.

Alex

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