[Debian-eeepc-devel] [PATCH 2.6.31] rfkill: allow toggling soft state in sysfs again

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Johannes Berg may or may not have written...

> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 22:09 +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
>> I demand that Johannes Berg may or may not have written...
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>>> *shrug*, I don't like it, but whatever...
>> I do. It means that we have a nice simple text-based interface for use in
>> scripts (for now), and a binary interface which is better suited to the
>> likes of desktop applications.

> Indeed, and as long as you expect to only use soft toggle... problem is
> that you won't know whether it's soft-toggled or not while it's
> hard-blocked (off)!

Which is fine for eeepc-acpi-scripts and anything else which doesn't care
about hard-blocking because the hardware doesn't do that.

eeepc-acpi-scripts should eventually use your rfkill utility, though. (I
intend to make sure that it does so.)

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