RE: udev rule bluetooth.rules

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Bastien,

> > > > Ref bluez-4.43 /etc/udev/bluetooth.rules:
> > > >
> > > > # Run helper every time a Bluetooth device appears
> > > > # On remove actions, bluetoothd should go away by itself
> > > > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="bluetooth", RUN+="/usr/sbin/bluetoothd
> > > > --udev"
> > > >
> > > > Shouldn't this be of the format /etc/udev/rules.d/xx-bluetooth.rules
> > > > so that it starts in the correct order - i.e. after dbus?
> > > 
> > > That's taken care of - if dbus is not available, bluetoothd will exit
> > > with return code 1. udev will notice that and later start it again in
> > > the coldplug run.
> > > 
> > > > if dbus is not started, I need to do this:
> > > > # udevtrigger --subsystem-match=bluetooth
> > > > is this is what was meant by "coldplug run"?
> > > --
> > > Thanks - I'd been playing around with this as /etc/udev/rules.d/85-bluetooth.rules but hadn't got around to trying without dbus started - it works for me with dbus started.
> > > 
> > > It would be nice if "--prefix=/usr/local" were passed to bluetooth.rules to give:
> > > 
> > > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="bluetooth", RUN+="/usr/local/sbin/bluetoothd
> > 
> > I fixed that now and we generate bluetooth.rules with the correct
> > prefix.
> 
> The UDEV_DATADIR code is broken:
> 
> 
> 114         UDEV_DATADIR="`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=udevdir udev`/rules.d"
> 115         if (test -z "${UDEV_DATADIR}"); then
> 116                 UDEV_DATADIR="${sysconfdir}/udev/rules.d"
> 117         fi
> 
> UDEV_DATADIR will never be empty, because it will contain at least
> "/rules.d".

fixed with bluez-4.45 release. Thanks for reminding me about a
brown-paper-bag ;)

Regards

Marcel