Hullo Pls point me somewhere else if this is the wrong list for this posting - I've tried to find a more appropriate place, but cannot. Toshiba laptops have a silly switch that needs to be flipped to enable bluetooth on them. Prior to acpi, Jonathan Buzzard wrote a driver to enable access to this switch through /dev/toshiba. Unfortunately, the ACPI driver was incompatible with that code, so you could either have bluetooth or ACPI. On 2005-06-12 14:12:49, John Belmonte posted his plans for getting toshib_acpi to support access to the toshiba switch. There have been several patches that didn't make the kernel (unsurprisingly) as they put bluetooth drivers directly into toshiba_acpi, and JB has provided a series of patches to his original toshiba_acpi to enable direct access to the toshiba switch. While toshiba_acpi was reasonably stable, it was practical to patch a stock kernel, either from JB's patches or one of the bluetooth changes. However, recently, there's been more activity on toshiba_acpi and the patches don't keep up. This leads me to the question: "How do I get bluetooth enabled on Toshiba laptops"? Is it code that belongs in toshiba_acpi - and if not, where does it belong? In either case how do I get it in? If nothing else, I'm intrigued how such a decision is made. Sorry for wasting bandwidth if this is off-topic, but pls point me to where it would be on-topic. cheers Tim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
