Re: [Bluez-devel] Bug#376860: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#376860: bluez-libs: FTBFS on hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-*

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

To bug-hurd people: this is about the bluetooth stack implementation,
which might be useful to re-use as is in the Hurd.

Marcel Holtmann, le Thu 06 Jul 2006 16:11:00 +0200, a écrit :
> Hi Samuel,
> 
> > > of course it compiles fine, because it is all simple C code. However
> > > without the Bluetooth subsystem of the Linux kernel it is totally
> > > useless.
> > 
> > Ok, but when BSD and the Hurd will have bluetooth drivers, it _will_ be
> > useful.
> 
> only if they follow the Linux kernel interface for Bluetooth.

The Hurd did for the pcap interface for instance. There is probably no
reason for not reusing an existing interface, if it permits to benefit
from a working stack.

Samuel