From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
To: Joey Lee <jlee@novell.com>
Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, corentin.chary@gmail.com,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@novell.com>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@novell.com>,
mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, jbenc@suse.cz, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Support enable Acer Launch Manager mode
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:11:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010151811.06792.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CB8A5290200002300021E79@novprvlin0050.provo.novell.com>
On Friday 15 October 2010 09:02:01 Joey Lee wrote:
> > Why would user chose one setup over another? I.e do we really need a
> > module option or maybe we should pick up behavior and stick to it?
>
> When Acer notebook ship with Windows, they will preload a userland
> application, the name is Launch Manager, it provide a GUI for end user
> to change WLAN/BT/3G on/off state.
[...]
> Because the Launch Manager is userland application, so wmi driver only
> can provide the function for it to call and don't have any way can
> detect it from kernel module.
Dmitry's point is still valid - why do we want to provide the userspace
behaviour? Why not just handle it all in kernel using rfkill?
We don't have Launch Manager for Linux, and quite frankly, I hope we never see
it - relying on random, vendor specific applications to drive this kind of
functionality is just asking for trouble.
-Carlos
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-15 8:02 [PATCH 2/3] Support enable Acer Launch Manager mode Joey Lee
2010-10-15 17:11 ` Carlos Corbacho [this message]
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2010-10-30 16:28 Joey Lee
2010-10-21 3:35 Joey Lee
2010-10-19 13:25 Joey Lee
2010-10-19 13:28 ` Corentin Chary
2010-10-19 15:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-19 16:03 ` Corentin Chary
2010-10-19 16:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-19 11:15 Joey Lee
2010-10-19 13:07 ` Corentin Chary
2010-10-19 9:55 Joey Lee
2010-10-19 10:51 ` Corentin Chary
2010-10-19 8:09 Joey Lee
2010-10-19 2:48 Joey Lee
2010-10-18 4:53 Joey Lee
2010-10-18 8:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-18 2:32 Joey Lee
2010-10-18 4:07 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-18 7:19 ` Carlos Corbacho
2010-10-18 7:55 ` Corentin Chary
2010-10-18 8:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-18 8:40 ` Corentin Chary
2010-10-13 3:47 [PATCH 1/3] Add acer wmi hotkey events support Lee, Chun-Yi
2010-10-13 3:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] Support enable Acer Launch Manager mode Lee, Chun-Yi
2010-10-13 18:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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