Re: CreateSecureDevice

Hi Andrew,

>>> Aren't you maintaining bluez-gnome?  Could you add this fallback to
>>> properties/input.c?
>>
>> feel free to send a patch :)
>
> Trouble is that it doesn't return anything, it just segfaults.
> Probably it's being called in some wrong way.  I might look at it
> someday but given that I can just remove 'Secure' if bluez-utils is
> too old I think I'll just leave the package patched.

if it segfaults then it is a bug in bluez-gnome. It should never  
segfault only because a method is not available.

>>> I'm curious what you mean by "would have broken the API."  Do you  
>>> mean
>>> if we were to remove the method now after it has been released?   
>>> If so
>>> then I agree, it's too late.
>>
>> We can't add any parameters to an already established method call.  
>> And
>> there are cases were we wanna use a device in an unpaired way.
>
> There can be an input device that can be used in either paired or
> unpaired mode as desired?  I wouldn't have thought any such thing
> existed, but if that's so then I agree and am sorry to have troubled
> you about it.

The HID specification and its implementation are broken in some cases :(

Regards

Marcel


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