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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
To: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Multiple rfkill knobs for the same hardware interface
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:29:56 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908041630.00533.arvidjaar@mail.ru> (raw)

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This is mostly the same situation as ACPI vs. platform backlight 
control. Here on Dell XPS M1330:

{pts/1}% rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
4: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

Arguably, either one in the pair is redundant. Moreover, hard disabling 
wireless (using slider on notebook side):

{pts/1}% rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

So dell-laptop actually lies claiming that both radios are enabled. Even 
if this is a bug that can be fixed, having two knobs for exactly the 
same piece of hardware is confusing at the very least.

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-04 12:29 Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2009-08-04 12:43 ` Multiple rfkill knobs for the same hardware interface Matthew Garrett
2009-08-04 17:13 ` Marcel Holtmann

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