wakeups due to bluetooth

[Erik Andrén]

Yuan Chao wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> <pfps at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>>  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
> One more thought: the bluetooth itself is a huge power comsumer. What
> we need would be an easier on/off mechanism.
> 

HAL has some support for a software bluetooth killswitch.

Also, there's often a physical bluetooth toogle button on laptops.
I only enable WLAN / Bluetooth / Webcam when I need them and turn them 
off after usage to minimize the power consumption.

Regards,
Erik
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