Re: [PATCH] Remove hid2hci from bluez

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Hi Bastien:

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> I really wonder how good an idea that is, given that, ultimately, we'd
> want to remove hid2hci from everything, and handle the switching from
> within bluetoothd.
>   
This is a conflicting goal with the on-demand stuff I feel.  You can't
have the on-demand stuff and this working if the BT radio is only
exposed after the device switches modes.
> If we had specs for the devices (or at least rev-eng'ed specs), we'd
> need to do link keys management, and switching the devices to hci mode
> from within the same codebase.
>   
I agree here, but I don't see the docs showing up anytime soon.
> So I'd rather hid2hci didn't go into udev-extras, and stayed in bluez
> until a better solution comes along.
>   
Why?  What's it's benefit living in the bluez tree?  By moving to
udev-extras, it now lives in /lib/udev and will work even if the /usr
gets mounted on NFS late.
> (Still no luck on getting specs from Broadcom about the Dell adapters at
> least?)
>   
I'll send another ping to ask about these again, but I wouldn't hold my
breath.

Regards

-- 
Mario Limonciello
*Dell | Linux Engineering*
mario_limonciello@xxxxxxxx

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