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--- Comment #3 from JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>  2007-09-12 07:04:12 MST ---
(In reply to comment #2 from Danny Kukawka)
> There is no such feature in  the upstream SVN trunk as far as I can see. And as
> it currently workit's really better to drop the feature.

Its in the 0.6.x branch only currently, it has not been forward ported because
of all the changes going on in trunk.

> HAL can't send a signal since HAL don't get an info if this change. At least
> also because this all differ from machine to machine. There is no common sysfs
> interface for killshwitch.
> 
> NetworkManager could do on ThinkPads the following:
> 1) check initial the status of WLAN/Killswitch
> 2) listen to HAL for ButtonPressed=killswitch event
> 3) call GetPower() 
> 
> Something like that also for Dell (and other) machines (if it doesn work:
> report it):
> 1) check initial the status of WLAN/Killswitch
> 2) listen on the input device for the keyboard for KEY_WLAN (keycode: 238)
> 3) call GetPower()

Isn't this the type of abstraction hal should deal with? 


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