On Saturday, 3 July 2021 12:17:42 BST Tamer Higazi wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> I want to deactivate my bluetooth device on my mainboard when gentoo is
> loaded.
> I don't want to "blacklist" the driver, more I want to tell the kernel
> to ignore this hardware.
> 
> Is there a way to tell "gentoo" to disable, or not load the driver for
> this particular hardware based on the irq or mac address ?
> 
> What is the propper way to do this ?
> 
> 
> best, Tamer

Not sure of a 'proper' way.  I know of a physical way - in hardware where the 
bluetooth has a button you can press to switch it off - typically available in 
laptops.  I also know of the rfkill command which comes with sys-apps/util-
linux.