Hi Henrique, > > Forget about this EPO crap. That is just a stupid concept anyway. > > Is it? So, if I use the _hardware switch_ on my laptop to kill all > internal radios, it shouldn't be enforced by the OS on extra radios I > plugged? Or on shitty internal WLAN cards that doesn't tie properly to > the mini-pci and mini-pcie hardware kill lines? > > And any userspace PoS program can decide to bring up such radios that > are not hardware-killed even if I am clearly trying to disable them all? any user program with proper rights (remember that /dev/rfkill can now be controlled by Unix permissions and SELinux) can bring up a specific device. That is policy and it belongs in userspace. This of course only works on soft blocked devices. The hard blocked devices stay off. And in case of ThinkPads where the button does the hard block, you can't bring it back from software. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
