Bug#471148: bluez-gnome: bluetooth-applet should allow to disable bluetooth

Package: bluez-gnome
Version: 0.22-1

Hi,
in the are of extended mobility life it would be nice if the
bluetooth-applet would enable the user to switch off bluetooth
alltogether. Another nice thing would be to be able to configure an
idle timeout of the bluetooth e.g. after 10 Minuten of not discovering
new devices or without connection disable bluetooth until user requests
enabling. As interface configuration is a root only thing one would need
to utilize dbus for this ...

Bluetooth is currently the source of the most wakeups on my notebook
(Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E8110) and i can only disable it by opening
a terminal and issueing a "sudo hciconfig hci0 down" which is not really
a solution for Aunt Tilly ...

Top causes for wakeups:
85.7% (953.0) /sys/bus/usb/devices/4-2
9.0% (100.0) <interrupt> : uhci_hcd:usb4, ohci1394, yenta, yenta, sdhci:
2.1% ( 23.7) <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts
0.5% ( 6.0) <interrupt> : ide0
0.5% ( 5.3) Xorg : do_setitimer (it_real_fn)
0.4% ( 4.7) <interrupt> : iwl3945
0.4% ( 4.3) <kernel module> : usb_hcd_poll_rh_status (rh_timer_func)
0.3% ( 3.7) gnome-terminal : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0.1% ( 1.3) <interrupt> : PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad
0.1% ( 1.3) Xorg : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0.1% ( 1.3) pulseaudio : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0.1% ( 1.3) <kernel core> : neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_t
0.1% ( 1.0) cpufreq-applet : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)

Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0c24:000f Taiyo Yuden
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 224 Wireless
bDeviceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency
bDeviceProtocol 1 Bluetooth


Issueing a hciconfig hci0 down shows this in powertop:

Top causes for wakeups:
17.3% ( 6.0) <interrupt> : ide0
16.3% ( 5.7) <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts
11.5% ( 4.0) <kernel module> : usb_hcd_poll_rh_status (rh_timer_func)
8.7% ( 3.0) Xorg : do_setitimer (it_real_fn)
8.7% ( 3.0) gnome-terminal : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
5.8% ( 2.0) <interrupt> : iwl3945
3.8% ( 1.3) Xorg : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
3.8% ( 1.3) pulseaudio : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
3.8% ( 1.3) <kernel core> : neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_t
2.9% ( 1.0) cpufreq-applet : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
2.9% ( 1.0) nm-applet : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
2.9% ( 1.0) dhcdbd : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
1.9% ( 0.7) <interrupt> : PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad

Thanks

Flo
Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-171-2280134
Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little
security shall soon have neither - Benjamin Franklin






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