On Monday 15 May 2006 15:25, Jiri Benc wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006 22:57:12 +1000, Mark Wallis wrote: > > Currently, in our rt2x00 (using the devicescape stack) we are firing off an > > ACPI event so that the hardware button can be handled in userspace. This > > allows the user to basically do whatever they want when this button is > > pressed - including bringing down the wireless interface. The problem here > > is no distro's currently contain scripts to run from this event so for many > > users it just "doesn't work" without them manually having to write scripts > > to handle the ACPI even themselves. > > Distributions will need to accommodate to the way d80211 stack works > anyway, so I see no problem with this. > > > B. should we be firing an ACPI event and getting the distro's to add scripts > > so when this event is fired they bring down all the wireless interfaces. > > Voting for this. It brings more flexibility. > > This is not a problem of your card only. Is there a standard ACPI > rf-kill event?
Not sure actually. the approach rt2x00 takes is sending an event ACPI_TYPE_EVENT with as argument a 0 or 1 depending on the new state of the button. But I don't know if there is another event that would be more suitable for a hardware button.
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