Re: how to have rfkill supported by hal?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:09 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> The rfkill bug was recently corrected in svn
> My question is: since now lots of notebooks with a wireless hotkey are not supported by hal, and only emit ACPI or other events, wouldn't it be easier to code a rfkill hal emulation that can be controlled by a binary executable /usr/bin/toggle_rfkill?

HAL should be fixed to work with ACPI-based laptops.  For now, I'd
suggest a small daemon that monitors ACPI events (or, have acpid callout
scripts write the status to a file somewhere), and then add a section to
the HAL rfkill script to read that file for rfkill status.

Dan

> In this way the events can be mapped to this executable, and most laptops will gain this feature!
> 
> Is this a good idea? If it's not who should we file bugs to have this support added? to hal? to the kernel?
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