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 -- E-Mail: [email protected] Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
