I demand that Thiemo Nagel may or may not have written... > Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Thiemo Nagel may or may not have written... >>> could you please have a look at the attached patch (against the shengine >>> branch) which allows toggling of HUAWEI USB GSM adapters? (saves approx >>> 0.5-0.8 Watts on my Eee PC 1000HGO) >> Could you test for rfkill support in kernel 2.6.31-rc2 or a backport of >> eeepc-laptop, and alter your patch accordingly? It looks like support is >> present via an rfkill device named "eeepc-wwan3g" (but I can't test this),
> I will have a look. >> and that would be the preferred method of handling this: we shouldn't >> hard-code it for a particular GSM device, we should only be affecting >> built-in hardware, and it looks like all that'll actually be needed is to >> report the state. > Do we want to keep the current behaviour as a fallback for pre-2.6.31 > kernels? I think so, but as a fallback in case eeepc-laptop doesn't support it. That can be dropped either when squeeze is released or should a sufficiently new kernel be made available in lenny (as was done for etch with 2.6.24). > Which kernel will squeeze ship? No idea. I'm guessing 2.6.34 or later, though. > BTW: Something I've been wondering for a while: What prevents > eeepc-acpi-scripts from entering the offical Debian distro? The fact that it's already there...? :-) (No need to Cc. I set M-F-T for that reason.) -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + At least 4000 million too many people. POPULATION LEVEL IS UNSUSTAINABLE. Money can't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy. _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
