Re: how to have rfkill supported by hal?

[dragoran <drago01 gmail com>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> 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
>   
what about the hardware switch found on some intel based laptops? there 
is no acpi event or anything like this... the drivers get the info from 
the firmware and print a message to dmesg. should the hal rfkill switch 
parse this? or should this be fixed in the intel drivers? (send some 
kind of event?)