Re: NetworkManager State MachineRe: rfkill modem or wifi

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 16:14 -0700, hong sheng wrote:
> Anyone knows the right state that Networkmanager should be when rfkill
> for the device? 

It should be UNAVAILABLE.  If the device cannot be used at this time (no
carrier, rfkill, supplicant not running, the user turned off wifi) then
NM will keep it in UNAVAILABLE state.

> What's the different to put it in " NM_DEVICE_STATE_UNAVAILABLE"  and
> "NM_DEVICE_STATE_DISCONNECTED" ?

If the device is now available NM will move it into DISCONNECTED state,
where the device is idle and is awaiting connections.  If NM notices
that the device can connect to something, either becuase there is a
connection that can be autoconnected, or the user told NM to do
something, NM will start the activation process.

Dan


> thanks
> 
> hong
> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:44 PM, hong sheng <hong022011 gmail com>
> wrote:
>         Hi 
>         
>         Any one knows that if we do rfkill modem or wifi, should
>         NetworkManager goes into the " NM_DEVICE_STATE_UNAVAILABLE"
>         state? or I set it to be "NM_DEVICE_STATE_DISCONNECTED" is
>         Ok? 
>         
>         what if rfkill is kill rf rather than turn off the device?
>         
>         thanks
>         
>         hong
> 
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