Why is the Dell killswitch interface turning *off* all hardware BT switches?

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 13:03 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I've been trying to track down why on some machines the hardware BT
> switch suddenly stops working periodically and then figured out what's
> actually happening.  HAL is turning it off every time.  Well
> unfortunately, on a lot of Dell platforms, the software switch simply
> doesn't work.  This is a BIOS limitation on those platforms.  What
> happens then is somehow this kill switch interface gets triggered,
> turns off the hardware switch, and suddenly the user has no way to
> turn bluetooth back on.  I feel the better solution is to only turn
> off via the software switch.  If the platform ends up supporting it,
> it will work, if not, nothing happens.
> 
> I'm attaching a patch to adjust this behavior, but I'm open to
> constructive criticism.

How about fixing libsmbios' dellWirelessCtl to not do stupid things?

Cheers