Re: [PATCH 2/3] Support enable Acer Launch Manager mode

[Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Joey Lee <jlee@novell.com> wrote:
> Hi Corentin,
>
> 於 二，2010-10-19 於 12:51 +0200，Corentin Chary 提到：
>> >> Most of users will want the key to just toggle wlan/bluetooth. But some of them
>> >> will be happy if they can configure the behavior of the key (cycle, only toggle
>> >> WLAN, etc...)
>> >>
>> >
>> > I thought just direct disable the default EC behavior then leave a
>> > userland daemon to control the behavior, it will grab the wifi key event
>> > then control rfkill state by follow user's customization rules.
>>
>> What I'm saying is: I don't really care what's the default behavior is,
>> but if the EC provide a somewhat reliable way to make the key work
>> without any userspace daemon involved, I think we should allow
>> the user to use this mode (even if it's with an obscure module
>> parameter or sysfs file).
>>
>> But .. maybe if someone want this default "raw" behavior,
>> he should just not load this module.
>>
>
> Fully understood, now.
>
> Like you siad, we need define a policy for:
>
>  - If user want the default "raw" behavior, what do they need to do?
>        I thought if the wmi driver doesn't load by default, then user
>       will get a "raw" behavior.
>
>  - If any distro want provide userland solution, how can they disable
>   the default "raw" behavior?
>        If anybody want to disable the "raw" behavior, just load the wmi
>       driver.
>
> Does it right?

Yeah, seems to be ok...
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Corentin Chary
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