Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:20:01 -0200
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Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] problem in making multiple connections using
 single bluetooth adapter using bluez
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 18:16:28 +0530
"siddhant tewari" <siddhant.tewari@gmail.com> wrote:

>     With linux being one of the major players in embedded domain and bluez
> being an official protocol of linux there is definitely a great need for
> multi connection support. You have suggested that somebody with a thorough
> understanding of bluetooth and its protocol should start to fork the full
> development of bluetooth support in linux , but that somebody cannot be at
> least me at this instance as i am just a starter and it took some effort
> from my side to even get the idea of what u wrote ... i think it should be
> someone like you who has such a clear picture of the problem or to be more
> precise really understands the problem well , who can initiate such
> development... all i can say is that i am ready to work if somebody  can
> guide me ....

I'd love to start a fork and am thinking about it since a long time
and each time I crash on BlueZ. Unfortunately, I lack the fundings to
do so, as this is certainly not a job for a weekend.

> Please tell me what are the other options parallel to bluez and is it really
> advisable to  use them .
> 
> I am stuck at this problem and i dont like leaving it as such.

As I told you, there is no other way. If there was, I wouldn't have
started a complete user-space bluetooth stack spending already many
months on that. And unfortunately, I'm not allowed to share my code so
far (I wish I was).

Well, besides the two options (giving up or doing it yourself), there
might be a third one: It seems that they are working now on flow
control which is quite related to multi-connections. At least it
should. Meaning: you can wait until they think it's somehow useable
and try then. But you'll always be stuck on a fundamentally broken
design and depend on the help of a not so benevolent dictator. And I
wouldn't expect to see mainstream kernels with this code before mid
2007. If you watch out for what is said about bluetooth, we can expect
a significant increase in complexity regarding implementations. At
latest then, BlueZ will have to change anyway. Maybe then, you'll be
able to use it. This may take a couple of years.

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