Re: Re: Re: ibm-acpi-0.1

[Karol Kozimor <sziwan-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org>]

Thus wrote Paul Ionescu:
> > Consider doing that from the notify handler, I'd bet that's what the
> > Windows driver does.
> But in this case I think it would be less flexible. Maybe somebody does
> not want to enable bluetooth by default with Fn-F5, but only the wlan.
> In windows you can specify what action to have for Fn-F5, like
> enable/disable for bluetooth, wlan, or bluetooth+wlan.
> If you enable/disable the bluetooth from notify handler, then
> you could not just enable/disable the wlan with Fn-F5.

It's still easier to do that from the notify handler and provide an
interface to enable / disable the specific bits at user request. By moving
it completely to userspace you add another layer of redirection which most
users won't need (as they don't give a damn about writing and configuring
glue scripts) as opposed to having your driver do as expected for most
non-developers. As I said, it's easy to come up with an interface to change
the default behaviour if anybody should wish so.
Best regards,

-- 
Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor
sziwan-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org


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