From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and bluetooth devices
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:29:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100053748.25879.34.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041108154422.EUWV25413.dircache05-winn.mailhost.ntl.com@localhost>
Hi Derek,
> So basicly I can't get a persistent name for a Bluetooth device on USB
> using udev!
the simple answer is no.
> I suppose I could do a script level tool that looked at the BD_ADDR and
> created an alias for which hciX it is on.
You haven't read my previous email? Did you? The Bluetooth HCI device
don't have any device nodes in /dev.
> This would have to monitor for a restart and use hciconfig to get the
> bluetooth address from that, then create the alias or environment variable.
Wrong way. Change the program to work with BD_ADDRs instead of hci0 etc.
The Bluetooth library makes it possible to do this.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-10 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-08 15:44 udev and bluetooth devices derek.philip
2004-11-09 7:20 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-11-10 2:29 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2004-11-12 1:55 ` Marcel Holtmann
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