On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:39 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > That proposal sounds fine to me from a userspace perspective. Sane > implementations don't assume the interface is IFF_UP when they configure > the device anyway (since it's not necessarily up at boot time or after > hibernate for example), and since you need a reconfigure after rfkill, > this seems reasonable. > > You wouldn't have to give up on txpower either, you could simply map > 'txpower off' to SW-rfkill, and 'txpower on' to un-SW-rfkill, where of > course the interface would be !IFF_UP after 'txpower on' just like > flipping the killswitch would. Yeah, good point, that sounds better than having to give up on it -- the key though is that we can't recover IFF_UP state when that happens; if that's ok this should be fairly simple. johannes
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