Re: [PATCH 2/3] Support enable Acer Launch Manager mode

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On Friday 15 October 2010 09:02:01 Joey Lee wrote:
> > Why would user chose one setup over another? I.e do we really need a
> > module option or maybe we should pick up behavior and stick to it?
> 
> When Acer notebook ship with Windows, they will preload a userland
> application, the name is Launch Manager, it provide a GUI for end user
> to change WLAN/BT/3G on/off state.

[...]

> Because the Launch Manager is userland application, so wmi driver only
> can provide the function for it to call and don't have any way can
> detect it from kernel module.

Dmitry's point is still valid - why do we want to provide the userspace 
behaviour? Why not just handle it all in kernel using rfkill?

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.

-Carlos
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