Re: PIN Helper

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
> Well, I'm pretty sure some other guys came up with the exact same
> question which was the start of this thread at various occasions last
> year or so (i.e. wanting to have a simple daemon-like pin helper). From
> your post I read that you acknowledge that this functionality which
> those other guys and me miss in bluez is something you'd like to have
> back in, right?
>
> So, if any solution, maybe heavily based on those two test programs
> would really make it back into upstream and would not be dropped because
> it somehow does not fit in the current design or whatever (that's what
> my original question was because the functionality _was already there_
> in 2.x), then why is the answer to those requests always "Do it
> yourself" and not at least "Do it yourself and maybe send it to us so we
> can merge it into upstream"?
>
> That's exactly what I wanted to know in the first place: Why you would
> not want this functionality in bluez but rather put people requesting it
> down with "Do it yourself (and leave us alone)". At least that was my
> impression.

Actually I think agent.c can be used for what seems to be your use
case, you need a pincode helper which handle pincode requests with a
predefined pincode which is what agent will do if you pass a pincode
e.g. agent 1234. Also you are free to suggest improvements, we are
very happy to accept patches from anyone as you can see from the
commit logs.

-- 
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
Engenheiro de Computação