Re: [PATCH] Toshiba Bluetooth enabler (rfkill)

Matthew Garrett
2009-12-08T15:47:44Z

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:45:05PM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> On 12/08/09 13:55, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> The problem with that is that there's no event to indicate that the
>> switch has been turned back on, so there's no way to update the rfkill
>> core appropriately. Giving userspace potentially stale information
>> doesn't seem helpful.
>
> I believe I can call into BTST and determine whether the switch is set
> to on or not. It's quite easy to add this to the resume handler and only
> call if it's set to on.

Right, but in normal use it's an issue. Unless we get notifications for
both types of state change, we can't add an rfkill device.

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