Hi Bastien, > > > You can keep personal attacks out of that. I think I've shown enough > > > patience trying to get this functionality into bluez proper. > > > > This is not personal. I am keeping a watch on the dependencies of > > BlueZ > > and I don't see any need for adding GObject to the mix for the SixAxis > > support. Feel free to convince me that GObject based gudev is really > > necessary for this. Until then I declare this bloat. > > No, it's not absolutely necessary, but somebody has to reinvent the > wheel, and I'm not happy spending time doing that. > > > Please remember that BlueZ will run on embedded devices with limited > > memory and space requirements. You might argue that these devices > > don't > > need SixAxis support, but I prefer to keep that option. > > Yes. And if such uses exist, I'm sure they'd be happy putting some > effort into bluez and do the port from gudev to libudev themselves. > > > > I won't be updating this patch, but Luiz showed interested. My patch > > > will show up in the Fedora packages shortly. > > > > That is your choice. Personally I really dislike if distros just go > > against upstream and start merging stuff, because it takes more effort > > to get it into upstream first. > > All my patches are sent upstream before they go into the packages, and I > think I put quite a bit of work into this. But at the end of the day, I > only have so much time, and rewriting bits of code because the upstream > doesn't like GObject isn't what I call a good use of my time. So I'm > leaving it to somebody else to go the last mile because I can't be > bothered. fair enough and if Luiz takes care of this I am more than happy either way. > > On that point, you haven't merged the Socket fix upstream > > It's not upstreamable, see the RH bugzilla. It depends on a kernel patch > that can't go upstream. Which bug is it. What is missing and why haven't I seen that kernel patch at least send to the mailing list for review. > > and also the > > Wacom and UTF-8 fix could be send upstream. > > They already have, and you commented on them. I still believe the UTF-8 > one could be merged as-is, but I don't have a good answer for the Wacom > one, which would need more investigation. The UTF-8 might go in as is. As I said, Johan could review these and merge them as good as I can. So feel free to bug him about it. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
