From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:52295 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752548AbYFDDjE (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:39:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:39:00 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Pavel Roskin Cc: "John W. Linville" , Ivo van Doorn , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] rfkill: clarify meaning of rfkill states Message-ID: <20080604033900.GA30978@khazad-dum.debian.net> (sfid-20080604_053909_464280_15812001) References: <1212549017-30144-1-git-send-email-hmh@hmh.eng.br> <1212549017-30144-2-git-send-email-hmh@hmh.eng.br> <20080603233202.2ysgs5s9n4cww4s4-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20080603233202.2ysgs5s9n4cww4s4-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 03 Jun 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh : > >> rfkill really should have been named rfswitch. > > I hope it's not too late to rename. If it's planned in advance and the > related userspace utilities are given an advance notice, it should go > smoothly. Linux went through bigger changes. Well, after this patch set, it is properly documented enough that people won't get confused by the inverted logic. And rfswitch would still cause the same confusion re. input devices, so it wouldn't help much there. > To me, "rfkill" sounds intimidating and evokes thoughts of electronic > warfare, "microwave gun", "disrupting enemy's communications" and such > stuff :-) Heh :-) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh