[ 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
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