Marcel, I was just poked about this thread: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg06087.html The hack is required because our BT hardware does not accept HCI commands when the device is plugged in. If I understood your position you did not want to accept the patch because our BT USB devices are violating the specification by not acceping HCI commands and yet claiming to be BT devices, is that right? This position seems perfectly reasonable, and if it is violating the specification this needs to be fixed in hardware for future devices. But what is done is done, an dwe need to support existing customers with current hardware, can you provide some recommendation as to an alternative approach to resolve this upstream? Without a patch like the one suggested Atheros' Bluetooth USB devices are essentially not functional at all. I am in hopes we can come to some agreement how to deal with a hardware quirk for now while we nag at our hardware team to consider changing the way our devices work. Someone from the Atheros BT team: can you send me the same patch to be applied into compat-wireless under the linux-next-pending/ directory ? That is, send me a patch which will apply onto compat-wireless. This way we can actually get our hardware functional to customers while we try to look for a better alternative directly upstream. You will also need to document this issue on the wiki. I recommend you document this here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath3k That is, create a new wiki page there for the driver and the things needed for it. Once I get the patch into compat-wireless we can refer users/customers to the compat-wireless stable releases with the linux-next-pending/ patch you give to me applied. Someone from the Atheros BT team: does the patch currently handle suspend/resume? Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
