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[Matthias Welwarsky <matze@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 13 March 2009 15:00:33 Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Thanks to the sony-laptop 0.6 modules I am down to around 12W (from
> powertop) and hopefully loads of run time even when doing programming.
>
> On thing I would like to be able is turning on and off the bluetooth
> device. Is it enough to unload the bluetooth modules, or do we need
> something similar as for thw g33 modules? There is already
> 	/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/bluetoothpower
> but I am not sure it has any influence.

The same ACPI functions that switch power to the HSDPA modem also control 
other wireless devices. I'm rather sure that I can fix bluetooth, too, and 
maybe also implement a kill switch for WLan. Not this weekend, its a bit 
packed, but next week very likely.

regards,
matthias

>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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