Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 13:33 +0200, dragoran wrote: > >> yelo_3 wrote: >> >>> I've had a look at your implementation. I have a question: >>> Think if someone has 2 ipw cards (I don't know if it is possible, but >>> think it is, since it is an example) >>> will he have 2 killswitches in hal, or just one? >>> If it has two, the script is executed two times, so it would be better >>> to pass to the script the interface to kill, instead of doing a for >>> among all interfaces which have a killswitch >>> >> thats a good question... but It should be possible (pccard? , but dunno >> if intel offers that) but than both would have the same killswitch >> anyway, but hal would show two. >> > > I think the scripts will provide multiple killswitches, one for each ipw > device found. And once ipwWirelessCtl uses the UDI that's passed to it, > it should work fine with multiple killswitches. > > yes but we use
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch as uid which would be the same for multiple killswitches we need something more unique > What other tools like NetworkManager do is another question; right now > NM will kill _all_ radios when it detects one that's killed. I don't > see any reason to change that right now. If the laptop actually has a > physical killswitch, it certainly doesn't have more than one for wifi > specifically, so I'm not sure we care about support multiple independent > wifi killswitches in NM right now. > > I never saw a laptop with 2 killswitches so this seems the right thing to do now. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
