On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:35 +0100, Cyrille Chépélov wrote:

> Isn't it possible, by a clever use of the GPIO backplane and 802.11 core
> masks, to allow a mode where the bcm43xx exports PA and AirlineMode to
> sysfs and just lets userland decide what to do? This is not going to be
> the most efficient to deal with the RF kill switches out there, but it
> should go a long way towards helping those with recalcitrant laptops
> and/or bioses and/or DSDT...

I think you misunderstood my comment. Yes, you can wire through GPIOs to
the 802.11 core or not do that if you feel like that, but how's that
going to help if you have an rf kill switch that works externally, for
example by disconnecting the antenna?

johannes

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