Re: [PATCH 0/2] Groundwork for Sixaxis paring into bluez.

[Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>]

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On Mon,  3 May 2010 22:15:54 +0200
Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> These changes are in preparation of seamless integration of the Sixaxis
> pairing procedure into bluez. It was about time :)
>

Ping, and comments below.

> The first one cleans up the quirks handling.
> 
> The second one adds a sysfs interface to set and get the device and master
> bdaddr, this is needed in order to setup the host for pairing. This kernel
> interface is a mere workaround for the lack of features of hidraw[1], if
> someone wants to add the missing features to hidraw I will be happy to drop
> this one, otherwise consider queuing these for 2.6.35 if it's too late for
> 2.6.34.
>

I guess the silence here was also because this particular
hackish solution must not look very good to you. If there's really a
strong objection to it I might consider extending hidraw capabilities by
adding some ioctls, maybe I just need some extra motivation.

Regards,
   Antonio

> Thanks,
>    Antonio
> 
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg08311.html
> 
> 
> Antonio Ospite (2):
>   hid/hid-sony: Apply sixaxis quirks only to sixaxis
>   hid/hid-sony: get and set Sixaxis bdaddr via sysfs
> 
>  drivers/hid/hid-sony.c |  170 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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