Re: [Bluez-devel] DBus interface - determining whether a device exists

Matthew Garrett
2006-08-17T11:22:26Z

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:57:55PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

> what you actually want is something like l2ping so see if a device is
> alive or not. At the moment I am not considering such an extension,
> because we shouldn't page devices to see if they are active or not.

Why not? It seems more sensible to do that than to blindly attempt to
set up a hid connection without knowing whether the device actually
exists or not.
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