On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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, and we need to support existing customers with > current hardware, can you provide some recommendation as to an alternative > approach to resolve this upstream? Marcel some attention to this would be greatly appreciated. > 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. I have gotten clarifications from Ken Steck that this issue is only present on AR3011 chips used in the SFLASH configuration. AR3012 will not have this issue. > 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. I saw no takers on this.. so I just created the page myself. > Someone from the Atheros BT team: does the patch currently handle > suspend/resume? Shanmugamkamatchi has noted to me he will be sending me this patch soon and it also supports suspend/resume properly, however, I would like to resolve this upstream. Marcel, please let us know what path you recommend we take for this. 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
