[PATCH 2/2] Add support for ipw killswitch to hal

Adel Gadllah adel.gadllah at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 09:04:47 PDT 2007


Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:03:47PM +0200, ext Adel Gadllah wrote:
>   
>> +      <!-- Don't use generic ipw rfkill on Dells -->
>> +      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.vendor" contains_not="Dell">
>> +        <match key="info.linux.driver" string="ipw3945">
>> +          <spawn udi="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch"/>
>> +        </match>
>> +      </match>
>> +  
>> +      <!-- Don't use generic ipw rfkill on Dells -->
>> +      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.vendor" contains_not="Dell">
>> +        <match key="info.linux.driver" string="ipw2200">
>> +          <spawn udi="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch"/>
>> +        </match>
>> +      </match>
>> +
>> +      <!-- Don't use generic ipw rfkill on Dells -->
>> +      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.vendor" contains_not="Dell">
>> +        <match key="info.linux.driver" string="ipw2100">
>> +          <spawn udi="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch"/>
>> +        </match>
>> +      </match>
>>     
>
> I've owned ThinkPads with all three generations (X40 with ipw2100, T43
> with ipw2200, X60s with ipw3945), and none of them have had kill
> switches.  Indeed, I've never seen it on a thinkpad, full stop.
>
>   
As Bastien already said it doesn't matter.. if there is no hardware 
killswitch there is still the software one.
The Dells are excluded because there are already supported.


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