Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 20:23 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 20:22 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 21:06 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> <snip>
> > > it is pretty simple actually. Check include/linux/rfkill.h and it is
> > > just poll, read and write. Only one ioctl for rfkill-input replacement
> > > in the future, but that is unimportant and will go away. That is it.
> > > 
> > > http://git.sipsolutions.net/gitweb.cgi?p=rfkill.git;a=summary
> > > 
> > > This contains a really simple rfkill userspace tool.
> > 
> > Looks good. Hopefully one of Dan or myself will pick it up and wrap it
> > in GObject goodness to share in NM and gnome-bluetooth.
> 
> FYI, filed this for gnome-bluetooth:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585765

I'm vaguely hoping I don't have to care about rfkill too much, because
in the New World with the kernel rfkill goodness in 2.6.31, since there
are a lot of rfkill methods [ wifi, wwan, wimax, bt ] and since Fn+F5
(ie, input-only kill) needs to be handled too, maybe somebody will write
an app that will just handle the rfkill problem, and NM can simply
listen for events and do the right thing.  But not actually ever have to
*set* rfkill on.

Dan