Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:20:13 +0200 |
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Hi guys,
> And then there is the Bluetooth SCO change which I agree was > borderline and I should have pushed back on.
so this is the statement, I sent Dave to explain why that change was in there:
--- For the btusb driver this adds the promised SCO support. The btusb driver is a new driver and will eventually replace hci_usb. Adding SCO support was the last missing piece. All distributions are using the hci_usb driver at the moment and you can only select one of them. So this can't introduce any regression. With this change the distributions are now able to select the new driver if they really want to. ---
Was this absolutely needed after -rc3. Of course not. No questions asked about it. So why did it ended up in there?
Almost everybody is using the hci_usb driver and that one has issues that are beyond fixable. So the btusb is its replacement and with this change it became a real alternate solution. For me this is a new driver that would allow people to use it in case hci_usb gives them a hard time and falls over again. And fixing hci_usb is not an option. A lot of people tried it and they failed. I think the last one was Pavel a month ago. This is why I re-wrote the whole beast from scratch.
So that is my excuse why I thought this would be good choice to push it to Dave. No more excuses and no new drivers after the merge window. At least not from me.
Regards
Marcel
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