Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 174238
Bad: toshiba_acpi does not enable bluetooth device
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:23:14 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: The built-in toshiba_acpi module, despite providing adequate support for Toshiba fnfx functionality, does not enable Bluetooth support (i.e., there is no /proc/acpi/toshiba/bluetooth). The URLs below have a working patch (as well as a completely new version of the toshiba_acpi.c file). http://www.cwrose.de/toshiba/s5200.html#bluetooth http://nicolas.bettenburg.free.fr/linux/files/toshiba_acpi.c Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC4 2. Install fnfx, modprobe toshiba_acpi 3. Verify that there is no /proc/acpi/toshiba/bluetooth (even though fnfx is able to control display brightness, etc.) Additional info:
please tell the developers of this code to push their changes upstream. Fedora stays as close to the mainline kernel as possible. If we carried updates to various drivers, we'd end up with something completely unmaintainable, and impossible to convince upstream developers to look at.
I suppose this is not a "various driver", then... http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/kernel/linux-2.6-acpi-thinkpad-c2c3.patch?rev=1.1&view=log
Nevermind, I now know what the IBM stuff is for. In the meantime, I documented my toshiba_acpi modifications at: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Enable%20Toshiba%20Bluetooth%20Support%20In%20Fedora%20Core%204 If you'd be so kind as to drop me a line telling me whom to contact or how to go about doing it, I'll gladly get it into kernel.org...
that thinkpad patch got merged because without it, it prevents installation. feature requests go upstream. The upstream maintainer of Toshiba_ACPI is John Belmonte, so send a mail to him at toshiba_acpi@memebeam.org and hopefully he'll merge your changes in for a future upstream kernel release. Thanks.