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by robolange 744 days ago
I feel this. I recently ran into a problem with a kernel update breaking Bluetooth on resume from suspend. My Logitech keyboard and mouse that I use at my desk stopped working after each resume, and I had to go to the laptop keyboard and manually stop and start Bluetooth. On each resume.

Look, I'd love to contribute to the kernel, but the amount of time I have to play around with these things is now measured in minutes per day. So no, sorry, I don't have time to rebuild my kernel from mainline, and then bisect, and then cherry pick patches, and then test out proposed updates, and then help shepherd it through my distribution's patching mechanism.

So I just gave up on Bluetooth on Linux and plugged in Logitech's proprietary Bolt dongle, and re-paired my devices with it, and haven't had trouble since. I'd prefer to use standard protocols, but this isn't the first time a kernel update broke my Bluetooth setup, so I think I'll stick with what just works.