[RFC] propose to develop a rfkill daemon

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 21:20 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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> Just chatted a few lines with DavidZ, and thought about:
> 
> We grant read access for all users at /dev/rfkill. It might be good
> enough if we have something that can set stuff there with privileged
> operations, like pkexec, and don't need a full daemon for that?

A D-Bus mechanism would probably be good enough, seeing as the events
already have a way to get delivered.

The only part that would be more work is figuring out if we can actually
receive the killswitch input events in X, or if we're still in the suck
for those.