Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Power off HCI devices before rfkilling them

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi Jonas,

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 1:19 PM Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In theory the firmware is supposed to power off the bluetooth card
> when we use rfkill to block it. This doesn't work on a lot of laptops
> though, leading to weird issues after turning off bluetooth, like the
> connection timing out on the peripherals which were connected, and
> bluetooth not connecting properly when the adapter is turned on again
> quickly after rfkilling.
>
> This series hooks into the rfkill driver from the bluetooth subsystem
> to send a HCI_POWER_OFF command to the adapter before actually submitting
> the rfkill to the firmware and killing the HCI connection.
>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2: Fixed commit message title to make CI happy
>
> Jonas Dreßler (4):
>   Bluetooth: Remove HCI_POWER_OFF_TIMEOUT
>   Bluetooth: mgmt: Remove leftover queuing of power_off work
>   Bluetooth: Add new state HCI_POWERING_DOWN
>   Bluetooth: Queue a HCI power-off command before rfkilling adapters

Apart from the assumption of RFKILL actually killing the RF
immediately or not, I'm fine with these changes, that said it would be
great if we can have some proper way to test the behavior of rfkill,
perhaps via mgmt-tester, since it should behave like the
MGMT_OP_SET_POWERED.

>  include/net/bluetooth/hci.h |  2 +-
>  net/bluetooth/hci_core.c    | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c    | 16 +++++++++++-----
>  net/bluetooth/mgmt.c        | 30 ++++++++++++++----------------
>  4 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>


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Luiz Augusto von Dentz