On Monday 18 October 2010 03:32:22 Joey Lee wrote: > So, we choice remove rfkill-input then put the logic in x86/platform > driver? > A simple question: > Userland policy daemon or kernel module, which one we want to put the > wifi hotkey behavior implementation? Pass. I really have no opinion on the above, as long as we pick something and stick with it (i.e. not-another-rfkill-rewrite). > > We don't have Launch Manager for Linux, and quite frankly, I hope we > > never see it - relying on random, vendor specific applications to drive > > this kind of functionality is just asking for trouble. > > Acer BIOS team provide the function to OS for disable the EC hehavior, > it's available on window, why we hide it on Linux? As an aside, just because Windows does something is not a good reason to do it or expose on on Linux if it doesn't make any sense. > Either userland daemon or kernel module who want to implement the wifi > hotkey behavior, it need enable the launch-manager mode to disable the > default EC behavior on wifi hotkey. When did Acer laptops start doing this then? The behaviour they always did in the past was that pressing the wireless/ bluetooth/ 3G button sent out a scancode, and is was then the job of something else to catch that (be it rfkill-input or friends) and for that something else to then toggle the state. Do the current batch of laptops then just 'magically' toggle the state without needing rfkill-input? (And do you actually have contact with someone on the Acer BIOS team? Because I've never managed to get through to anyone at Acer, so would be interested to know). > If don't want provide the launch-manager mode parameter to userland, can > we just direct enable it? Well, my point is more that we should figure out what we want, and then stick with that. I don't want to add a pointless module paramater that all of three people are ever going to use, and then have to support it working both ways. -Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
