Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] D-Bus interfaces
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
Cc: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:29:42 +0100

Hi Fredrik,

> > do we really need to store configurations based on the device id? I
> > think we should store them all based on the device address only.
> 
> My opinion is that we can drop support for the "device hci0 { ... }"
> syntax since it's a bit confusing - Bluetooth devices are very address
> oriented so "device { ... }" and "device 00:00:00:00:00:00 { ... }"
> are enough. This would also simplify the configuration code in hcid,
> i.e. less risk for bugs.

I like to keep it, because it can be useful for embedded devices where
you have two or more Bluetooth dongles. However I started using it on
one of my test machines that have many dongles attached.

For the D-Bus interface and the Gnome or KDE frontend we should use
BD_ADDR based settings only.

Regards

Marcel


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