Re: [PATCH] rfkill: create useful userspace interface

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Henrique,

> > > You can remove the EPO functionality and add a "switch all radios off"
> > > and "switch all radios on" accell commands.  But that's all you can do
> > > if you depend on userspace.  It will -not- be EPO.
> > > 
> > > You can have EPO in the kernel, and have userspace command the kernel to
> > > enter and exit EPO state.
> > 
> > I fully disagree with you here and your concept of EPO and how it is
> > suppose to work is fully flawed. EPO is a policy and if you define it as
> 
> Just rename it to something else.
> 
> Whether the current code can achieve what EPO is suposed to be is beside
> the point.  Just rename that functionality to something else, as the
> direction you want to go is clearly NOT one suitable for something named
> "EPO".

I don't care about the name. You can name it whatever you want. The
point here is that it is a policy and so we trigger it from userspace.
And we are finally fully capable of doing so with almost all subsystems
from a simple daemon. Only exception is most external 3G (as mentioned
in my other email) and my WiMAX is behaving a little bit quirky, but I
am looking into that.

Regards

Marcel