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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add API to retrieve the Bluetooth Device Address
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To: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
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From: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 01:25:45 -0400
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On 9/20/2018 7:19 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> If the existing users populate a custom property with the BD address
> in the bootloader you could roll out a bootloader change. You'd have
> to make sure that bootloader and kernel match. The bootloader could
> still populate the custom property to be compatible with 'old'
> kernels.

If there is no standard about the name of the property, this probably
doesn't belong to property.c but should rather be hosted in bluetooth
directory for consumption among the bluetooth drivers.