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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] [Fwd: Bug#322732: bluez-utils: rfcomm bind fails with obscure error message]
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:12:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124709149.23599.19.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124658001.1592.21.camel@saag.bunker.heddley.com>

Hi Edd,

> > When the 'rfcomm' kernel module isn't compiled with CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM_TTY
> > enabled, 'rfcomm bind' will fail with an obscure error message, "Can't
> > create device: Operation not supported".  It does this when it's trying to
> > bind to a device in /dev.

this error message is correct. It follows the errno error code that
comes back from the kernel.

> > Could this be changed to report something more useful, such as "Check
> > rfcomm.ko is compiled with TTY support"?

What about a patch for the RFCOMM manual page that explains this
problem?

Regards

Marcel




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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-22 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-21 21:00 [Bluez-users] [Fwd: Bug#322732: bluez-utils: rfcomm bind fails with obscure error message] Edd Dumbill
2005-08-22 11:12 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2005-08-22 12:48   ` Fred Schaettgen
2005-08-22 14:20     ` Marcel Holtmann

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