On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 01:23:01AM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Luis, > > > 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? > > you don't have to accept HCI commands when your device has no firmware > loaded. That is just fine. However at that point you should not claim to > be a Bluetooth H:2 device with USB Bluetooth descriptors. > > Just having different USB PIDs for without firmware and with firmware > stages would have been fine. The ancient Broadcom 203x devices even got > that part right. Ah I see. > So what about sticking with the current VID:PID for the device without > firmware and we blacklist it in btusb driver. And then the firmware > loading ensures that after reset it uses a different PID for the device > with valid HCI firmware. How would firmware be uploaded to the device if no module is claiming it? 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
