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Old 12-04-2009, 03:17 PM
Darren Salt
 
Default rfkill (was: Has Debian abandoned Python?)

I demand that Henrique de Moraes Holschuh may or may not have written...

> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
[snip]
>> My program allows exactely that, and uses either DBus/HAL interface
>> of /dev/rfkill.

> Just keep in mind that /dev/rfkill manipulates radios of a given _type_ as
> a group, and that an user could have many radios of the same type, and want
> to manipulate just one.

You appear to be confusing /dev/rfkill with its corresponding userspace
binary (which can enable or disable by type or index).

> Also, touching any rfkill line _can_ cause hotplug and hotunplug of
> devices.

True, as we EeePC owners know quite well :-)

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