On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 17:27 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Bastien, > > > xdg-hostname[1] is a D-Bus service that offers notification on hostname > > changes, and provides an additional "Display hostname" (think MacOS X' > > and Windows' "computer name"). > > > > This would allow us to call adapters something like: > > Bastien's laptop > > rather than: > > dhcp-1-124-1 > > > > The code is a first pass at the problem, and won't even run, but will > > compile. I'm thinking about changing that code, and I'm looking for > > hints on the direction (rather than comments on the dependencies or the > > coding style). > > > > I'm thinking: > > - Make expand_name UTF-8 aware > > - Factor the main_opts.hostname setting code, and make it pluggable > > (hints?) > > - Change the device name when the display name or hostname changes > > (would need to get added to the hciops plugin) > > personally I never liked the Bluetooth name being derived from the bare > hostname and desktop systems. So feel free to do something similar that > we do for the class of device. > > However keep in mind that systems like the N810 or similar wanna have a > specific default name and we have to respect that. So if integration > configures a default device name in main.conf then we should respect > that. Sure. We'd adjust the default configuration slightly, and fix expand_name and leave it at that. > Problem area as usual are the cases with multiple devices attached to > the same system. Having them ending all up with the same name would be > kind stupid. Yes. Although there's no real way to work around that. > Don't change src/plugin.c since bootstrap-configure will turn PLUGINDIR > to the local repository anyway. And also you can have builtin plugins > that will solve the testing issue. Missed that bit. And the patch got into the commit by mistake. > Of course when you consider this seriously for inclusion, I expect a > pure low-level D-Bus plugin here. Same as how we handle HAL. Did you _actually_ read the mail: > > and I'm looking for > > hints on the direction (rather than comments on the dependencies or the > > coding style). I'm still wondering how we can handle the hostname changing, and having the hostname overridden by a plugin. -- 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
