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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ development <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] DBus and BlueZ 3.x
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:39:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153985977.9543.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f30e2610607260812p561f00aar8cf2e0b79a247cbb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jeff,

> I've been following the list for a while, but I never picked up on
> what exactly DBus does for BlueZ.  It is my understanding that in
> BlueZ before 3.0, the socket() interface for userland API is
> implemented by an ioctl() interface to the kernel.  In BlueZ 3.x, is
> all the HCI is handled by passing messages via DBus instead of
> ioctl()?

with our D-Bus API for BlueZ we provide a really nice an easy
configuration interface that can be used without linking the Bluetooth
library or be bound the C/C++ language.

Regards

Marcel



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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-26 15:12 [Bluez-devel] DBus and BlueZ 3.x Jeff Wilson
2006-07-27  7:39 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]

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