[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] networking questions & requests

[From: Johan Hedberg]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005, Claudio Takahasi wrote:
> Another issue that I would like to suggest to keep the code 
> in the bluez community in order to make the maintenance
> easier. Why D-BUS service was not provided in the 
> bluez-utils dund? I believe you and Marcel can discuss later.

It would probably not have been a bad idea to use dund for DUN
connections had it had a D-BUS interface. However, I don't think the
current solution where all RFCOMM connections are centralized in btcond
is a bad idea either. Nevertheless, I'm pretty open to ideas how to do
bluetooth connectivity by having as many SW layers as possible in common
with the bluez and desktop linux community. There was even some
cooperation discussions with Edd Dumbill (who has developed
gnome-bluetooth) in the end of last year, but mainly due to lack of time
resources from both parties there hasn't really been any progress on
that front.

Anyway, the Bluetooth SW architecture is in no way "fixed" with regard
to maemo and future products, but for the 770 it's too late to start
changing things.

> Regarding the implemented daemons, I didn't see integration
> with libosso. Is there plans for it or it is not necessary?

I don't think it's necessary since they're dealing with pretty low level
stuff. AFIAK libosso is meant mainly for applications. 

Johan