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Re: Request to add bluetooth module identifier to net/rfkill/rfkill-gpio.c

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Hi Sundar,

> I have a Cherry Trail laptop with an Atom X5-Z8300. It has a bluetooth
> chip that needs the r8723bs (coexisting RTL 8723BS wifi and
> bluetooth).
> 
> I am using linux-next (20150817) with the r8723bs staging driver and
> the firmware and utility from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723bs_bt
> by Larry finger.
> 
> With linux-next the bluetooth works SOMETIMES, but on reboot, it does
> not work any more (no bluetooth interfaces are detected and hciconfig
> shows nothing).
> 
> I am a kernel novice, but I saw that another kernel that I had tried
> had the following line added in struct acpi_device_id
> rfkill_acpi_match:
> 
> { "OBDA8723",RFKILL_TYPE_BLUETOOTH }
> 
> With the attached patch applied (one line added), my bluetooth works every time.
> 
> Does this belong in rfkill-gpio.c, or should I contact someone else?

it does not belong in rfkill-gpio.c since this controls the power of the Bluetooth device. This belongs in the Bluetooth driver. We already moved all the Intel and Broadcom ones into hci_intel.c and respectively hci_bcm.c. So have the staging driver deal with the power GPIO.

Regards

Marcel




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