On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 17:00 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:34:37PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 13:41 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > The rfkill utility isn't generally useful to normal users, so move it to > > > /sbin with other system management executables. > > > > Seems to me that it's kinda useful, it should be possible for most users > > to use the event and query interface if the /dev/rfkill permissions are > > set up correctly. > > Sure, but (just like ip, ifconfig, or iwconfig) nothing stops people > from using them in /sbin or /usr/sbin. It is just a convention for > tools that are more for system management than for day-to-day use. > > Hopefully most people will stick with NM or whatever and may stay > completely unaware of the rfkill utility. :-) So are you going to send an iw patch too? :-) FWIW I like tools in bin/ since the default paths on most systems for users don't include sbin/. johannes
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