linux-kernel - Re: rfkill rework in 2.6.31-rc, hal/dbus access changes?

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Message-Id: <1249906970.12361.11.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:22:50 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rfkill rework in 2.6.31-rc, hal/dbus access changes?

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:43 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:

> Ok, I have rewritten my rfkill gnome applet with threads and polling
> /dev/rfkill. Did work out fine.

Umm. That's wrong in multiple ways. You don't need threads, and you
don't need to poll. Just open /dev/rfkill, add the fd to the event loop
and read events.

> I hope the format will not change too often ;-)

It won't.

johannes

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