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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:30:15 -0700
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Subject: Re: Synching trees for BT 3.0 and a possible compat-bluetooth
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
>> I forgot to poke about BT 3.0 synching at the summit. To work on
>> bluetooth 3.0 we'll need some synching of trees between
>> wireless-testing and Marcel's bluetooth tree. Also a compat-bluetooth
>> might be in order to accomplish the same as we do with
>> compat-wireless, only it would seem logical to consider tying to just
>> merge this with compat-wireless to get the features required for
>> bluetooth 3.0; to do this having one tree with both would be nice with
>> the added benefit of all the same compat-2.6.3x.[ch] files being
>> reused. Synching of the trees would be required only when a feature on
>> one tree is not yet available on the latest rc kernel (provided marcel
>> rebases on Linus' latest rc as well, not sure), this will probably be
>> important during initial implementation, not sure how much divergence
>> we should expect after this goes through a release through Linus.
>>
>> So any thoughts on synching bluetooth and wireless-testing other than
>> doing so on a private tree for development purposes?
>
> we don't need this right now. For the initial development of the WiFi
> AMP, we will use the fact that you can create HCI RAW devices from a
> driver. These are skipped by BlueZ and only show up in hciconfig. That
> should be enough for testing.

Thanks Marcel, when do you expect we would need this?

  Luis