On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:57 +0100, "Thomas Bächler" <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed that the rfkill package is in community now (very good). > However, I have been asked if it was possible to make a few improvements: > > 1) Add a rfkill group (or use an existing group) and allow that group to > write /dev/rfkill using udev (if we add a group, we should do that in > the filesystem package, not the rfkill package). Apparently, some > desktop applications would like to set the rfkill state, so this way we > could allow that. > 2) Add an init script that can optionally unblock wifi, bluetooth or > anything else on boot. In the past, some devices were soft-blocked on > boot by default (is this still an issue?), so this could be improved. > > Maybe we should even move this to extra or even core. Giovanni, this > seems to be your package, what do you think? >
I started reworking netcfg a few weeks ago to use this instead of the deprecated sysfs interface and was planning to introduce it as an opt-dep in [extra]. So extra or core is fine. James
