From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Holtmann Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:55:11 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and bluetooth devices Message-Id: <1100224511.12168.58.camel@pegasus> List-Id: References: <20041108154422.EUWV25413.dircache05-winn.mailhost.ntl.com@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20041108154422.EUWV25413.dircache05-winn.mailhost.ntl.com@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi Derek, > > > 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 > > Yes I did,I was thinking more along the lines that at the script level a script would look at a variable of some description, which is constant, and use its contents to determine which hciX to use. This variable would be populated by another process that monitored the coming and going of Bluetooth devices. maybe possible, but it looks messy to me. > > 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. > > > Do you have any pointers for this maybe I can persuade te btcli authors to produce a variant! The btcli is CSR specific and actually I never saw the Linux version of it. You got it, so you may ask your CSR contact for this extension. Regards Marcel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel