killswitches

[Mario Limonciello]

Hi Nicolò:

Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
> I have a dell laptop and 3 killswitches, but I use only bluetooth and
> wlan, because I don't have any wwan card.
> I noticed that whenever I switch off bluetooh (or wlan) and I suspend,
> after the resume the card is on (i can check it because the 2 leds are
> blue).
>
> I think that the killswitches should be persistent at least to a
> suspend or a hibernate.
> (well, I also think that they should be persistent to a reboot or shutdown...)
>   
The current behavior with HAL is intentional to prevent you getting into
a situation where you have disabled using a software kill switch and are
unable to restore using the hardware switch.

Regards
-- 
Mario Limonciello
*Dell | Linux Engineering*
mario_limonciello at dell.com
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