[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#492592: bluez-utils: load bluetooth kernel module on before starting hcid

[Hendrik Sattler]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.36-1
Severity: important

Hi,

hcid (and probably other bluetooth stuff) will not startup if bluetooth is only available
as kernel module. Thus, not loading it makes those pieces of software unusable.
Thus, the init script should make a call to "modprobe bluetooth" if e.g. /sys/class/bluetooth
does not exist (or whatever else is a clear indication that bluetooth is only available as
module and not built-in).

The effect of this bug is that hot-plugged devices are not up and thus not working until
"/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart" is called.

HS

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  dbus                         1.2.1-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libbluetooth2                3.36-1      Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                        2.7-10      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.1-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.16.4-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-12 userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-12      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  makedev                      2.3.1-88    creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools            3.4-1       tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                         0.114-2     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages bluez-utils recommends:
ii  bluez-audio                   3.36-1     Bluetooth audio support
pn  obex-data-server              <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages bluez-utils suggests:
pn  bluez-firmware               <none>      (no description available)
ii  kdebluetooth                 1.0~beta8-5 KDE Bluetooth Framework

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