netdev - Re: [RFC] rfkill - Add support for input key to control wireless radio

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Message-Id: <1165222423.12640.15.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:53:43 +0100
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>, davidz@...hat.com,
	Bastien Nocera <bnocera@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] rfkill - Add support for input key to control wireless
	radio

Hi Dan,

> 3) How does this interact with HAL?  What's the userspace interface that
> HAL will listen to to receive the signals?  NetworkManager will need to
> listen to HAL for these, as rfkill switches are one big thing that NM
> does not handle now due to lack of a standard mechanism.
> 
> In any case, any movement on rfkill interface/handling standardization
> is quite welcome :)

I want some handling for the Bluetooth rfkill in HAL, so our config
application can physically turn on/off the Bluetooth chip with a simple
method call to the HAL D-Bus interface. We also need to discover the
existence of such a rfkill switch.

Regards

Marcel


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