From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from [12.19.149.2] ([12.19.149.2]:28258 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754143Ab0HWWWi (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:22:38 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.105]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:22:34 -0700 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:22:36 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Bastien Nocera CC: Luis Rodriguez , Johannes Berg , Kevin Hayes , David Quan , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "geoclue@lists.freedesktop.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] iw: add GeoClue support Message-ID: <20100823222236.GE2206@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> <1282597556.3405.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100823221119.GC2206@tux> <1282601707.3405.140.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <1282601707.3405.140.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:15:07PM -0700, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:11 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:05:56PM -0700, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > 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] > > > > Sorry I do not follow yet. Is the idea that you would prefer if > > client applications would never talk to providers directly and instead > > always used the master provider? > > Exactly, and it's mentioned in the bugzilla Thanks for the heads up, I haven't been grep'ing through the bugzilla. > and was discussed on the mailing-list as well. And am new there :) This makes sense -- are there plans on removing all these exported library routines so that the only exposed thing is the master provider calls? Based on your comments it seems changing the iw patch to just use the master provider would go more in line with current development focus. Luis