Re: ipw srcipts for hal

[dragoran <drago01 gmail com>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 13:33 +0200, dragoran wrote:
>   
> > yelo_3 wrote:
> >     
> > > I've had a look at your implementation. I have a question:
> > > Think if someone has 2 ipw cards (I don't know if it is possible, but 
> > > think it is, since it is an example)
> > > will he have 2 killswitches in hal, or just one?
> > > If it has two, the script is executed two times, so it would be better 
> > > to pass to the script the interface to kill, instead of doing a for 
> > > among all interfaces which have a killswitch
> > >       
> > thats a good question... but It should be possible  (pccard? , but dunno 
> > if intel offers that) but than both would have the same killswitch 
> > anyway, but hal would show two.
> >     
>
> I think the scripts will provide multiple killswitches, one for each ipw
> device found.  And once ipwWirelessCtl uses the UDI that's passed to it,
> it should work fine with multiple killswitches.
>
>   
yes but we use

/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch

as uid which would be the same for multiple killswitches we need something more unique  

> What other tools like NetworkManager do is another question; right now
> NM will kill _all_ radios when it detects one that's killed.  I don't
> see any reason to change that right now.  If the laptop actually has a
> physical killswitch, it certainly doesn't have more than one for wifi
> specifically, so I'm not sure we care about support multiple independent
> wifi killswitches in NM right now.
>
>   
I never saw a laptop with 2 killswitches so this seems the right thing 
to do now.