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buddabrod

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 220

Bluetooth producing many interrupts

Hey there, i just received some mails from the intel power mailing list

Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> Hi:
>
> One of the suggestions that Powertop makes is to turn off bluetooth.   
> That gets rid of the interrupts from the bluetooth device but at the
> cost of removing bluetooth functionality.  Is there any effort to fix
> the cause and get a bluetooth system that doesn't produce 100 interrupts
> per second even when no devices are connected?
>

yes just enable the CONFIG_BT_HCIBTUSB config option; that's a rewritten, much
improved driver that doesn't have this problem.
(you may need to disable CONFIG_BT_HCIUSB to see this option)

Maybe that could be standard as well in stock Arch kernels?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,604

Re: Bluetooth producing many interrupts

Submit a feature request - devs don't always have time to read the forum.

buddabrod

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 220

Re: Bluetooth producing many interrupts

Here it is :-)