Re: [PATCH 1/1] toshiba_acpi: Add support for bluetooth toggling through rfkill (v6)

From: Philip Langdale
Date: Wed Aug 20 2008 - 13:00:46 EST



On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:57:04 +0200, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@xxxxxxxxx>
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

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