From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ users <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] What happened with pin_helper (hcid.conf)?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:00:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1168452016.5241.5.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C67AA1DF-D588-4FA1-884F-526189E99EDA@gmail.com>
Hi Bas,
> > this has been discussed to death. Starting with bluez-utils-3.x the
> > PIN
> > helper concept has been deprecated and you have to provide a passkey
> > agent. Nobody said that this agent has to use a display. Check the
> > example passkey-agent.c in the source code.
>
> The word "over-engineering" is about to leave my mouth.... *oops*,
> nope, won't say it.
once you realize the full picture behind it, you might think otherwise.
The change to a passkey agent concept and cleanly separating the
handling of a pairing from the PIN input was a wise decision. Especially
when the new Simple Pairing of Bluetooth 2.1 comes along.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-10 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-10 16:05 [Bluez-users] What happened with pin_helper (hcid.conf)? Bas Schulte
2007-01-10 16:12 ` Brad Midgley
2007-01-10 16:31 ` Bas Schulte
2007-01-10 16:51 ` Brad Midgley
2007-01-10 16:56 ` Bas Schulte
2007-01-10 17:12 ` Andrew Kohlsmith
2007-01-10 17:54 ` Bas Schulte
2007-01-10 17:04 ` Bas Schulte
2007-01-10 17:13 ` Paul Gardiner
2007-01-10 17:28 ` Bas Schulte
2007-01-10 17:41 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-01-10 17:56 ` Bas Schulte
2007-01-10 18:00 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2007-01-10 18:07 ` Bas Schulte
2007-01-10 18:38 ` David Armour
2007-01-10 18:39 ` Bearcat M. Sandor
2007-01-10 18:56 ` Bas Schulte
2007-01-11 10:03 ` Stefan Seyfried
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