Re: NetworkManager should report killswitch state per device

[Larry Finger <Larry Finger lwfinger net>]

Fanen A. wrote:
> Is it possible that a situation may arise when both cards use the same 
> driver? :p
>
> My two cents: its better if the kill switch for one device doesn't 
> affect another device (in the case of the mini-pci wireless, and the 
> pcmcia wireless cards). If its at all possible to allow the 'default' 
> behaviour of the switch killing both wlan, and bt, and wifi for the 
> (usually) onboard device, but sparing the addon card, this would be ok 
> for most folks IMHO.

I'm not sure what happens with other drivers, but for b43, the kill switch 
has absolutely no effect on a PCMCIA card. Only the mini-pci and mini-pcie 
cards have any hardware to switch off the radio signal. This makes sense as 
the user has no possibility of removing the interface. That said, downing the 
interface will turn off the radio no matter what interface is used.

Larry