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From: Hector Martin <hector@marcansoft.com>
To: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Subject: Re: Wiimote pairing?
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:10:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1D3714.9080003@marcansoft.com> (raw)

Sorry for the lack of proper thread headers. I subscribed to ask about
this very issue and it turns out it was asked two days ago in the
already, after I checked out the archives :)

Seeing as everything is done using strings everywhere, including the
storage (which is a text file), I think it might be easier to just
define a hex format. Something like $0011deadbeef for raw binary
pincodes expressed as hex. This will let all the existing tools handle a
raw PIN.

The Bluetooth spec talks about numeric and alphanumeric PIN codes, but I
haven't seen mention of special characters. I think the likelihood of
having issues with real PINs with a starting $ sign is fairly low (and
they could always be expressed as hex).

An alternative would be to use a more traditional backslash escape
sequence type format, but that's harder to parse.

-- 
Hector Martin (hector@marcansoft.com)
Public Key: http://www.marcansoft.com/marcan.asc

             reply	other threads:[~2009-12-07 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-07 17:10 Hector Martin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-05 13:57 Wiimote pairing? Bastien Nocera
2009-12-05 14:50 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-12-05 15:02   ` Bastien Nocera
2009-12-05 15:07     ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-12-05 15:43 ` Bastien Nocera

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