HAL, sound cards and laptops

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 07.08.06 11:07, Johannes Berg (johannes at sipsolutions.net) wrote:

> 
> Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >- Has anybody been looking into exposing information about those "RF
> >  Kill" buttons in HAL? The HAL spec has a namespace "button" and
> >  currently defines only "lid", "power" and "sleep" as possible
> >  types. Maybe it would make sense to add "bluetooth-kill" and
> >  "wlan-kill" to this list?
> >  
> Are you aware of Ivo's rfkill patches for Linux that are most likely 
> going in some time?

Yes, I am aware of those. However, on my laptop the WLAN/Bluetooth
button is accessible from userspace anyway, because it produces some
strange keypress events. On my laptop there is no need for any
rfkill driver in kernel space. However, what I am looking for is a
subsystem in HAL for this.

Lennart

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