Re: [Bluez-users] Using AVRCP with current BlueZ

Johan Hedberg
2007-11-23T12:32:37Z

On Nov 23, 2007, at 14:00, Csillag Krist=F3f wrote:
> One more question: what was the reason to use
>
> KEY_NEXT and KEY_PREVIOUS, instead of
> KEY_NEXTSONG and KEY_PREVIOUSSONG?

No special reason, except that the names of the key codes matched more =

precisely the AVRCP spec.

> The latter are below-256 keycodes (like KEY_PLAYPAUSE,
> which is used by BlueZ for pause) handled nicely by
> all applications (like keytouch), where the former, which
> are currently used, are extended codes, mostly unsupported
> in user-space.

If this improves interoperability with existing applications then it's =

probably a good idea to apply your patch. I'll commit it to CVS later =

today unless somebody has a good reason why it shouldn't be done.

Johan