Re: Bug 10173 / Bluetooth on Toshiba & Compal laptops

[Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:29:05 +0100, "Robert M. Albrecht" <mail@romal.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> anyone working on toshiba_acpi or omnibook module ?
> 
> toshiba_acpi:
> 
>
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c41a40c58b623f97dd2e23aa3baab2cedb47d99f
> 
> The rfkill-switch does not work. The device is disabled when switched of,

> but it gets not reenabled. But the bluetooth dongle is enabled after
> booting.
> 
> AFAIK this only works for Toshiba manufactured devices (toshiba_acpi),
not 
> for Compal manufactured.

The officially stated maintainer for toshiba_acpi seems to be out of
contact,
but I'm responsible for the rfkill patch. I can only say that the patch is
designed
to re-enable bluetooth when the hardware kill switch is de-asserted and
that I tested
this to work before the change was merged. If it doesn't work now, it's
either:

a) a regression introduced by one of the fixes for laptops with no
bluetooth device. I
   consider this unlikely.

b) different behaviour in your model of toshiba vs. mine

c) a difference in how you've got the kill switch configured in sysfs. Not
sure if that's
   even possible.

As you might conclude, I suspect B.

--phil