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Re: [PATCH 04/13] rfkill: add parameter to disable radios by default

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On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 19:06 +0200, Fabien Crespel wrote:
> Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > 
> > Why not add the possibility for each rfkill-enabled radio to supply it's 
> > default state?
> > 
> 
> Indeed, I think it would be better to let the driver choose the default state 
> (initialization) instead of forcing it when registering. This would allow drivers 
> to restore the device state after a reboot or shutdown (provided the firmware 
> stores it, which is the case at least on my ASUS F3JC laptop).

Do you mean your laptop BIOS stores the value in nvram somewhere?  What
specific driver reads that value back out?

Dan

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