[ moving to devel ] martin wrote: > Hi Paul, techteam, > > you patched the codepath that controls the wireless disable to run > rfkill to *really* kill the network when wwe mean to kill the network. > > Why did we do this? Regulatory reasons? Is there a tracking bug where > I can get more background? The commit msg was rather terse :-) > > Why do we care? It is confounding GNOME/NM/nm-applet, and depending on > the rationale, my workarounds may be valid or not.
we needed a way to control power to the wireless card for power management. on XO-1, we used a private mechanism (/sys/power/wlan-enabled), but on 1.5, we wanted to something "standard". so we implemented rfkill. we later, also implemented rfkill on xo-1, which makes common code at user level possible. NM will react to changes in a devices rfkill status. it will not, however, actually control rfkill. and yes, i was aware that the NM applet "disable" function was incompatible. what are your workarounds? paul > > cheers, > > > > m > -- > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
