[RFC] rc.d integration for the bluetooth subsystem
Vladimir Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru
Mon Oct 17 01:22:40 PDT 2005
В вс, 16/10/2005 в 02:44 +0300, Panagiotis Astithas пишет:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been playing with integrating the bluetooth subsystem into our rc.d
> infrastructure and I'd like to submit the results of my efforts for
> review. My testing has been centered around my USB bluetooth dongle and
> I know that it works, but I suppose other bluetooth devices should work
> as well. I have taken the existing rc.bluetooth script (that is not
> installed by default) and converted it to rc.d, renaming it as
> 'bluetooth'. I also added a couple of other scripts for hcsecd and sdpd,
> that are started from bluetooth, but can also function independently, id
> so desired. Finally I have added a devd configuration file that makes
> sure the bluetooth script gets started on insertion and removal of the
> USB dongle.
>
> With these changes, when I plug in my USB bluetooth dongle, all the
> necessary initialization happens behind the scenes and I can start using
> my bluetooth peripherals right away. When I unplug the dongle all the
> services stop and the necessary shutdown operations are performed on the
> bluetooth stack. There is still some work left, like specifying
> different flags for sdpd & hcsecd, but the defaults work fine.
>
> In order to test this stuff you have to:
>
> - copy bluetooth, hcsecd and sdpd into /etc/rc.d
> - copy ubt.conf into /usr/local/etc/devd (creating it if necessary), or
> add its contents to /etc/devd.conf
> - add a line in /etc/rc.conf with:
> bluetooth_enable="YES"
>
> In an eventual merge into the base system the devd configuration should
> be merged into /etc/devd.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf should contain
> the following line instead:
> bluetooth_enable="NO"
>
> I'd appreciate any comments you may have.
Great ! It just works, Thank you.
I've added bthidd script (in attachment) to start human interface daemon
(bt mouse in my case).
Probably it should load vkbd module, but I am not sure now.
> Cheers,
> Panagiotis
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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru
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