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From: Eduardo Rocha <folhabranca@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Cleaning up the D-Bus interface
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:16:10 -0300

Hi Marcel,

I agree about the "mode" property. But about Up and Down we have to
consider issues like security and power save. Will the Off mode
(nopiscan) be equivalent to device Down in power consumption?

BR,
Eduardo.


On 12/20/05, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I always said that the D-Bus interface won't have to be designed after
> any technical part of the Bluetooth specification and I think it is time
> to change the discoverable and connectable options.
>
> The Bluetooth specification and most devices allow you to set the device
> to discoverable, but not connectable. The combination actually makes no
> sense at all, because for the name resolving the remote device must be
> connectable. I would propose to have a "mode" property with actually
> three different states: Off, Connectable, Discoverable/Connectable. The
> Off state also makes the Up/Down functions obsolete, because they are
> BlueZ internal and in some embedded devices you might wanna also have
> deep sleep mode support. The internals should be all hidden from the
> userspace and for desktop devices the Off option could mean inquiry and
> page scan disabled.
>
> The other option that is needed is of course the device name. With the
> upcoming extended inquiry the question is now if we also wanna support a
> short name or if hcid/bluetoothd should shorten the name by itself if
> needed.
>
> We also have to deal with the major and minor part of the device class.
> The other bits would be set by sdpd if a specific profile has been
> registered.
>
> What else needs to be configurable?
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
>
>
>
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