Re: Re: Re: ibm-acpi-0.1

[Paul Ionescu <i_p_a_u_l-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:47:17 +0200, Karol Kozimor wrote:

> 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,

Well, in this case I don't have any other comments/complains for doing it
in the notify handler.

Thanks,
Paul



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