Bug 488177

Summary: Duplicated killswitches
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component: halAssignee: Richard Hughes <richard>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Bastien Nocera 2009-03-03 00:43:19 UTC
Created attachment 333796 [details]
hal-duplicated-killswitch.txt

Killswitch appear both through the Dell and the kernel layers.

Should the Dell backend in HAL just be removed? Mr Garrett has the answer, as he wrote the dell_laptop kernel module that does the rfkill dirty work.

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2009-03-03 00:46:04 UTC
Note that the names of the kernel killswitches suck though, and this would need to be fixed before this bug is closed.

Comment 2 Matthew Garrett 2009-03-03 00:55:31 UTC
Answer: Yes. What kind of names were you thinking of?

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2009-03-03 01:42:51 UTC
Actually, scratch that, I don't intend on showing those anywhere in my UI. Let's remove it!

Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2009-03-03 08:40:22 UTC
+1 -- I think a lot of stuff like that in HAL can be removed. I think a USE_LEGACY_INTERFACES might be more kind, rather than just ripping out the code.

Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2009-03-03 10:55:37 UTC
Fixed in hal-info:
* Tue Mar 03 2009 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera> - 20090202-3
- Remove the Dell native killswitches, replaced by the kernel killswitches
  in dell_laptop (#488177)

and in hal:
* Tue Mar 03 2009 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera> - 0.5.12-23.20090226git
- Remove Dell killswitches support, they're handled through the kernel's
  dell_laptop module instead now (#488177), removes requires for smbios-utils