Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net ([195.173.77.132]:39004 "EHLO anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756584AbZGJXl3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:41:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:09:26 +0100 From: Darren Salt To: Johannes Berg Cc: John Linville , Thiemo Nagel , Corentin Chary , debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.31] rfkill: allow toggling soft state in sysfs again Message-ID: <507E529B48%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1247262952.26071.1.camel@johannes.local> References: <4A5716AA.5000903@ph.tum.de> <71cd59b00907100545v6f440a19xfc3668826eb1e509@mail.gmail.com> <4A5743AB.6090303@ph.tum.de> <71cd59b00907100646h5e0283fcyce5874cc4a19106b@mail.gmail.com> <4A575119.9070505@ph.tum.de> <507E3B9268%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> <1247254899.21972.9.camel@johannes.local> <507E47A184%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> <1247262952.26071.1.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I demand that Johannes Berg may or may not have written... > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 22:09 +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Johannes Berg may or may not have written... [snip] >>> *shrug*, I don't like it, but whatever... >> I do. It means that we have a nice simple text-based interface for use in >> scripts (for now), and a binary interface which is better suited to the >> likes of desktop applications. > Indeed, and as long as you expect to only use soft toggle... problem is > that you won't know whether it's soft-toggled or not while it's > hard-blocked (off)! Which is fine for eeepc-acpi-scripts and anything else which doesn't care about hard-blocking because the hardware doesn't do that. eeepc-acpi-scripts should eventually use your rfkill utility, though. (I intend to make sure that it does so.) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Kill all extremists! A large dog will have a surprising effect on your life.