bluez and hci's which initially come up as hid (was Re: Some days it just doesn't pay to update)

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Mon Sep 5 17:50:53 UTC 2011


Hi,

On 09/03/2011 12:22 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 10:10 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
 >
>> With that said, you're the Fedora bluetooth maintainer, so you are the
>> boss. The easiest way to make this opt-in, and I think also a good one,
>> is to just move the udev-rules and the hid2hci binary to their own
>> bluez-hid2hci sub-package. People who want to have their hid proxying
>> adapters to actually show up as HCI instead of HID can then do
>> yum install bluez-hid2hci
>>
>> We could even have a %post script doing a
>> "udevadm trigger subsys=to-be-figured-out"
>>
>> To avoid people needing to reboot / unplug the adapter after installing
>> the package. If you think this is a good plan, let me know and I'll implement
>> it.
>
> Sounds like a good plan to me. Thanks for looking into it.

Ok, the plan has been executed now and the result works for me :)

Jonathan, can you give bluez-4.96-3.fc17 a spin? It should fix your
mouse + keyboard issue.

For those interested in this, the F-16 update is here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/bluez-4.96-3.fc16

Regards,

Hans


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