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? Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
