<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi:<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I'm attaching a patch to adjust this behavior, but I'm open to
constructive criticism.<br>
<br>
Regards</font></font><br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<title></title>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="-2"><font
color="#999999">Mario Limonciello</font><br>
<b><font color="#ff0000">Dell</font> | <font color="#666666">Linux
Engineering</font></b><font color="#666666"><br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mario_limonciello@dell.com">mario_limonciello@dell.com</a></font></font>
</div>
</body>
</html>