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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:33:44 +0200
From: Frederic Danis <frederic.danis@linux.intel.com>
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Hello Marcel,

On 19/10/2012 01:13, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
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>> +Cache directory files
>> +======================
>> +
>> +Each files, named by remote device address, contains 1 [General] group:
>> +  [General]
>> +  Name=device name a
>
> Is this the only thing we are storing in these files? Or are we planning
> to store additional information at some point.
>
>> +Device directory files
>> +======================
>> +
>> +Remote device info file will include a [General] group with device info,
>> +[DeviceID], [LinkKey] and [LongTermKey] groups with related info:
>> +  [General]
>> +  Alias=
>
> Are we just doing the Alias here? We are not keeping the Name? In theory
> we have a short name and full name actually. If we ever only got the
> short name, we need to know that. Then we have to request the long name
> next time.

Name is already stored in cache file. So I think we do not need to save 
it also in device info file.

We may store both short and long names in the cache file.

Regards

Fred

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Frederic Danis                            Open Source Technology Center
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