Hi Paulo, On Thu, May 24, 2012, Paulo Alcantara wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2012, Paulo Alcantara wrote: > > > This patchset contains the remaining changes for the new storage format > > > used (bdaddr#type) on storage files (LE-only or shared files). > > > > > > The files that have been changed so far are: > > > primaries, characteristics, appearance, ccc, names, aliases, > > > longtermkeys, attributes, blocked. > > > > Any files that are used for BR/EDR would have to keep their backwards > > compatibility. Otherwise someone who upgrades from 4.99 to 4.100 will > > suddenly find that the device they had blocked is not blocked anymore > > and none of their devices have any names. We can't break something like > > that between 4.x versions. Are these patches guaranteeing this backwards > > compatibility? Looking at the patches it doesn't look like they give > > this guarantee. > > Ok, you're right. The only file that we should keep backward compatibility on > this series is the blocked file, since it's shared by both BR/EDR and LE devices. The aliases and names files are also shared with BR/EDR. It seems your patches do not take this into account. Johan -- 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
