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Subject: Re: bluez-gnome: how to turn adapter off?
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:44:42 +0200
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Hi Bastien,

> > Ok, so I remembered wrong ;-) How about adding a "disable this adapter"
> > option? Would a patch that implements this be welcome?
> 
> I'd like a patch implementing HAL killswitching. DannyK can explain to
> you how that's supposed to work.
> 
> I saw this as a single toggle menu item in the right-click, allowing you
> to enable/disable the main Bluetooth adapter on laptops. If there's a
> killswitch present, and there's 0 or 1 adapter (and the adapter matches
> the expected device) then the Bluetooth icon would shown grayed out.
> 
> This would probably also require more work like this:
>       <match key="@info.parent:system.product" contains="VGN-S1XP">
>         <merge key="killswitch.expected_usb_vendor_id"
> type="int">0x44e</merge>
>         <merge key="killswitch.expected_usb_product_id"
> type="int">0x3007</merge>
>       </match>

can we not just reference the UDI the killswitch belongs to. The vendor
and product things can be misleading.

Regards

Marcel