From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from relay1-v.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.75]:42376 "EHLO relay1-v.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753713Ab0HWVGC (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:06:02 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] iw: add GeoClue support From: Bastien Nocera To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Luis Rodriguez , Johannes Berg , Kevin Hayes , David Quan , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "geoclue@lists.freedesktop.org" In-Reply-To: <20100823174620.GA12375@tux> References: <1282350556-16523-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1282572681.3813.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1282579507.3405.130.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100823174620.GA12375@tux> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:05:56 +0100 Message-ID: <1282597556.3405.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:46 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:05:07AM -0700, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 08:44 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > > > What use is a command line tool that has to talk to a whole bunch of > > > > daemons etc.? > > > > > > The current implementation doesn't talk to deamons. The hostip > > > provider within GeoClue and it will just trigger a URL get. If > > > desktops start implementing a master server though then the query > > > would simply be a cached response. > > > > Note that this error carries on in the mail. There is a master provider > > for Geoclue that can make use of whatever providers are available, but > > it's not in too good a shape. > > I see, can you elaborate on that a little? See the bugzillas filed against Geoclue, most of them are due to bugs in the Geoclue master provider. > > I'd rather somebody started fixing the Geoclue master provider rather > > than relying on a particular service, especially when the D-Bus API for > > the providers themselves is something we don't want to support in the > > longer term. > > Would the master provider not use Dbus for gypsy, for example? No, I'm talking about what's exported by the providers. I don't really care if they talk to other parts of the system using D-Bus though. I'm talking about link 2) here. [App] <-1-> [Geoclue master] <-2-> [Gypsy provider] <-3-> [Gypsy daemon]