Re: [PATCH] Remove hid2hci from bluez

[Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>]

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Hi Bastien:

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 09:13 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
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> Why? Instead of calling hid2hci, it would launch bluetoothd --udev, like
> the other rules. Problem solved.
>   
Good point, that's sensible enough.
>   
>
> If that's the only benefit, then, frankly, who cares.
>
> The main point is that people with an interested in Bluetooth will need
> to go and fetch the code, and ask for patches to be committed.
>
> We're losing direct commit access to the code, and gaining something
> that could have been achieved in the distro package.
>
>   
Eh, direct commit access?  You submit it to this mailing list and Marcel
has to ack it, you submit it to linux-hotplug and Kay or Martin acks
it.  Seems to be 6 eggs in one hand, half a dozen in the other.  Look
over the history, and those hacking on hid2hci have been me and Marcel:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=bluetooth/bluez.git;a=history;f=tools/hid2hci.c;h=11d707fd76e940b884c9078907ab1
504cd7350d4;hb=HEAD



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Mario Limonciello
*Dell | Linux Engineering*
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