From: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>
To: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
toshiba_acpi@memebeam.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] toshiba_acpi: Add support for bluetooth toggling through rfkill (v6)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:01:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a2829c23d0739b82cf8bb7c7b80e6c4@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808201757.04501.IvDoorn@gmail.com>
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:57:04 +0200, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-20 3:01 [PATCH 1/1] toshiba_acpi: Add support for bluetooth toggling through rfkill (v6) Philip Langdale
2008-08-20 15:57 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-08-20 17:01 ` Philip Langdale [this message]
2008-08-20 23:29 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-22 21:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-22 22:25 ` [PATCH 1/1] toshiba_acpi: Add support for bluetooth togglingthrough " Philip Langdale
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