Re: [Regression] Bluetooth pairing does not work anymore in 2.6.39-rc3 (works in 2.6.38.3)

["Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>]

On 04/16/2011 09:38 AM, Gottfried Haider wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having problems pairing bluetooth devices in 2.6.39. Scanning
> works fine (hcitool scan), but when I try to pair a device using
> "bluez-simple-agent hci0 $MAC", I receive the following error message:
> "Creating device failed: org.bluez.Error.Failed: Input/output error"
>
> The same command reliably works on a 2.6.38.3 kernel with pretty much
> the same config.
>
> According to lsusb, I have a Broadcom Bluetooth Controller with ID
> 0a5c:217f. I don't see anything related in either of the dmesgs.
> My lspci output is here: http://sukzessiv.net/x120e/
> Userspace is an up-to-date Ubuntu 11.04 beta (with bluez 4.91).
>
> If there are any debugging steps that I could do or patches to try or
> revert, let me know. Unfortunately I can't do a proper bisect since
> the machine is a netbook type.
>
> cheers,
> gohai
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I'm wondering if you are hitting what I was hitting a few days ago.. the 
commit below got things working over here:
(not sure if this is in the stable yet)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/padovan/bluetooth-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b99faf1b798d6d0e33526fd2cef55a405c08ff09;hp=58b6e124aac64bebb2e9e1a136cbd21a5ab0485a

hope this helps,

Justin P. Mattock