From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:18:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Explicitly disable BT radio using rfkill interface on Message-Id: <20090701171803.GA20665@srcf.ucam.org> List-Id: References: <4A4A8B6D.3060509@dell.com> In-Reply-To: <4A4A8B6D.3060509@dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:12:55PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > Hi Marcel: > > Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > > > you know that we re-wrote RFKILL completely. You can kill a Bluetooth > > device from within the kernel. And this looks like a hardkill of the > > Bluetooth interface. > > > > > That's pretty similar to what I was trying to accomplish with the > original patch that started all of this discussion. I'll attach that > original patch so you can see what I'm talking about. I disliked this for a couple of reasons. The first is that it forces an rfkill even on hardware that doens't have this behaviour. The second is that it's working around a quirk on hardware that this driver really isn't reponsible for. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org