From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfkill PATCH] default install to $(PREFIX)/sbin
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:00:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090929210001.GG2678@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254256477.30589.1.camel@johannes.local>
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:34:37PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 13:41 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > The rfkill utility isn't generally useful to normal users, so move it to
> > /sbin with other system management executables.
>
> Seems to me that it's kinda useful, it should be possible for most users
> to use the event and query interface if the /dev/rfkill permissions are
> set up correctly.
Sure, but (just like ip, ifconfig, or iwconfig) nothing stops people
from using them in /sbin or /usr/sbin. It is just a convention for
tools that are more for system management than for day-to-day use.
Hopefully most people will stick with NM or whatever and may stay
completely unaware of the rfkill utility. :-)
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-29 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-29 17:41 [rfkill PATCH] default install to $(PREFIX)/sbin John W. Linville
2009-09-29 20:34 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-29 21:00 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-09-29 21:02 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-30 13:30 ` John W. Linville
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