linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] toshiba_acpi: Add support for bluetooth toggling through rfkill (v6)

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Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:01:09 -0400
From:	Philip Langdale <philipl@...rt.org>
To:	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	toshiba_acpi@...ebeam.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] toshiba_acpi: Add support for bluetooth toggling through rfkill (v6)


On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:57:04 +0200, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
wrote:
> 
> This looks very nice, but is the switch really toggling between
> soft and hard blocked only? ;)
> 
> I mean shouldn't there be some unblock signal at some point?

Nope :-)

There is no hardware mechanism to actually turn the bluetooth adapter on;
that's
why driver support has been so important for poor toshiba users; without it
the
adapter is completely useless. On windows, toshiba provide a special
program to
do this as well. It's all very odd.

--phil

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