Return-Path: Message-ID: <4A365E0F.6000100@dell.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:43:27 -0500 From: Mario Limonciello MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove hid2hci from bluez References: <6BE8CE7840AC9F459EF5A0693CA2744D5DB52E@ausx3mpc138.aus.amer.dell.com> <1245022400.11069.6101.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4A365725.5070503@dell.com> <1245076109.11069.7011.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1245076109.11069.7011.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0B2452523663D9ED9D4BD4BD" Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0B2452523663D9ED9D4BD4BD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Bastien: Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 09:13 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > =20 > > Why? Instead of calling hid2hci, it would launch bluetoothd --udev, lik= e > the other rules. Problem solved. > =20 Good point, that's sensible enough. > =20 > > If that's the only benefit, then, frankly, who cares. > > The main point is that people with an interested in Bluetooth will need= > to go and fetch the code, and ask for patches to be committed. > > We're losing direct commit access to the code, and gaining something > that could have been achieved in the distro package. > > =20 Eh, direct commit access? You submit it to this mailing list and Marcel has to ack it, you submit it to linux-hotplug and Kay or Martin acks it. Seems to be 6 eggs in one hand, half a dozen in the other. Look over the history, and those hacking on hid2hci have been me and Marcel: http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dbluetooth/bluez.git;a=3Dhistory;f=3Dtools/hid2= hci.c;h=3D11d707fd76e940b884c9078907ab1 504cd7350d4;hb=3DHEAD --=20 Mario Limonciello *Dell | Linux Engineering* mario_limonciello@dell.com --------------enig0B2452523663D9ED9D4BD4BD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko2Xg8ACgkQ2CrZjkA73YuIbQCgmfCsSar4bBlJCjR0TT4Lw6VL JXUAniGh3VSgSg3EfFsXfFsnC1FTxR8N =9HGS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0B2452523663D9ED9D4BD4BD--