On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 13:34 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008 14:21:15 +0200, "Thomas Renninger" <trenn@xxxxxxx> said: > > Shouldn't the thinkpad driver do this automatically? > ... > I HEAVILY suggest not messing with ANYTHING related to rfkill until my changes > get in mainline, or we could risk the backlight crap all again. 11.0 is on the way, we will stick to 2.6.25. > It is sufficient to say that almost NOTHING in mainline is > using rfkill correctly, so please don't try to make it work using > userspace workarounds yet. Let's fix this properly before it bites us in the arse. > PLEASE be patient for this. If there is no other way, we need to add quick userspace fixes, but I got it -> we'll try to avoid this. > If you're interested in helping, the > first bunch of patches is not more than a week away from hitting LKML, > and I can explicitly CC any of you that asks me to in a reply :-) Please add me :) I try to help, at least with testing. > The design for the rfkill changes was debated on LKML in a somewhat > long thread, if you want to get up to speed on the issues. > Look for it on the last two month's archives. Thanks a lot! I wonder how this should work to also get other drivers using it and backport all this for 2.6.25. Let's see..., I am looking forward to have a look at the patches. > Thanks for contacting me before trying to work around the current > thinkpad-acpi rfkill issues in userspace. I *really* appreciate it. Wow, be careful giving out too much info or I keep contacting you all the time :) Thanks for all the info, this really helps a lot. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
