Hi Elvis, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Elvis Pfützenreuter <epx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> With all those restrictions for writing, do you think it makes sense >> to allow writing to the "Descriptors" property? Can you mention >> situations where you might want applications to modify descriptors? > > Apart from CCC (which we plan to deal with in another series), no :( > > But GATT has this feature, so a general API should IMHO have it, since some > future GATT-based profile may well use it. > > Actually, there is just one restriction for writing: one descriptor at a time, > and I propose this just because of difficulties in error reporting (if e.g. > 2 out of 5 descriptors could not be updated due to lack of permissions, yet > just 1 error can be reported back). As we discussed on IRC, let's wait for stabilization and clarification or our D-Bus API for GATT services and characteristics, then we can introduce a descriptor access API upstream. Anyway, your patch is useful for whoever wants direct access to descriptors :) Regards, -- Anderson Lizardo Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia - INdT Manaus - Brazil -- 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
