Return-Path: From: Marcel Holtmann To: BlueZ users In-Reply-To: <1178784111.10803.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <4641DA61.8040709@tao-group.com> <1178722356.8628.96.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> <4641E662.6080303@tao-group.com> <1178724426.8628.102.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> <4641EA96.7070204@tao-group.com> <1178726532.8628.107.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> <46420306.8020509@tao-group.com> <1178780976.25565.6.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> <1178784111.10803.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:32:12 +0200 Message-Id: <1178789532.25565.68.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] API documentation? Reply-To: BlueZ users List-Id: BlueZ users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Hi Erwin, > > > That's just not *reasonable* on a system with low memory, especially since > > > Bluetooth will be the only thing that uses it. > > > > And how is the D-Bus overhead a BlueZ problem. Again if the current > > D-Bus daemon and its library is not suitable, then fix it. > > > Until now, it seems that nobody has ported d-bus to uClinux. Doing that > isn't trivial, because there are several uses of fork() that isn't > available in uClinux. In openwrt, there isn't any mention of d-bus at > all. Most probably, the footprint is too large for memory-restricted > systems. Because of that and the fact there are very few (if any) > projects for embedded systems that use d-bus it's hardly worth the > effort to port it. Bluez has worked quite well for embedded systems with > older versions, but since it ignores the demands of embedded systems > it's probably better to use a different bluetooth stack. and again. That is a D-Bus issue. Make the D-Bus maintainers fix it. All the blaming doesn't help since D-Bus is the generic IPC and to keep embedded system small it should be the only IPC. If people don't like the D-Bus usage of BlueZ, they can use the 2.x branch or any other Bluetooth stack. Regards Marcel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bluez-users mailing list Bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-users