On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:42:21 -0200 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Lucas De Marchi > > <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi Alon > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> Reading the tread about Sixaxis [1], and actually want to use this device... > >>> > >>> I could not figure out the end conclusion... as discussion was > >>> terminated in the middle. > >>> Alon, you can look at here to see what direction the discussion was taking: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/16540 a proper review of this proposal by BlueZ developer is still needed. [...] > The goal here is not to be able to build out of tree, but just as > module or builtin. > I can see Luca's argument here, AFAICS in BlueZ modularity of plugins is meant for object size reasons and for linking dependencies (think to udev for the sixaxis/plystation-peripheral plugin); plugins are still bound to the symbols provided by a matching bluetoothd, BlueZ devs do not want to keep a “super stable” public API for out-of-tree plugins, having the possibility of out-of-tree plugins is considered just a side effect of modularity here with no promises at all. Sorry if I skipped other parts of the discussion, not enough time. Regards, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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