From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 09:03:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E5716A41F; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 09:03:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from outi@bytephobia.de) Received: from dd2626.kasserver.com (dd2626.kasserver.com [81.209.184.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D061043D48; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 09:03:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from outi@bytephobia.de) Received: from duality.bytephobia.de (p54AD490C.dip.t-dialin.net [84.173.73.12]) by dd2626.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D0DB6D9A; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:03:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:02:56 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann To: Niels Heinen Message-Id: <20050904110256.70fd834e.outi@bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <20050903204304.GA17555@r0ck.mine.nu> References: <20050903204304.GA17555@r0ck.mine.nu> Organization: private X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.1 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libbluetooth changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Using Bluetooth in FreeBSD environments List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:03:52 -0000 On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:43:04 +0200 Niels Heinen wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I want extend libbluetooth with some new functions that allow > more programs to interact with the bluetooth stack. I'm for example > thinking about applications that do bluetooth device discovery. > > I'd like to propose the following to start with: > > 1. Move bluetooth control functions from hccontrol into the library > 2. Change hccontrol to use the library > 3. Make some functions more generic (if needed) > 4. Document > > My question to you is: do you have any suggestions or things I > should take into consideration ? > > I talked this over with Maksim (max) and he will review and commit > the changes. > > Thanks! > > Niels > Hi Niels, while thinking about changes to libbluetooth you might want to introduce some more Linux bluez compatibility. There is some yet, but I wasn't able to compile many apps that rely an bluez. Additioally, I'm no coder so my expierences in this may also be false. But I just wanted to give a hint if you start thinking on changes/enhancements. Patrick -- ==================================================================== Patrick Hurrelmann | "Programming today is a race between software Mannheim, Germany | engineers striving to build bigger and better | idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying outi@bytephobia.de | to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, www.bytephobia.de | the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email & vCards / \