[BRLTTY] What shall we do with bluetooth passkeys?

[Mario Lang]

Stéphane Doyon <s.doyon at videotron.ca> writes:

> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Dave Mielke wrote:
>
>> [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2006/11/17 at 00:18 +0100]
>>
>>> For those displays that always have the same PIN, that would
>>> be the right thing to do IMO, yet another reason to implement this
>>> functionality in the core.
>>
>> There actually is a problem. Until you can see the device you can't
>> probe it to figure out what kind of device it is. Until you know the
>> PIN you can't see the device.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean...
> $ hcitool scan
> Scanning ...
>         00:A0:96:0B:AE:F9       HWG Brailliant40 25010972
>         00:14:51:53:DE:DB       iMac-Intel
> $
>
> (The iMac belongs to one of my colleagues. Running this at work is
> fun, later in the day all sorts of cell phone come up...)
>
> I don't know how that works exactly, but it seems like the info is
> available... You don't need a PIN to get this.

True, the device name could be used to dispatch inside the driver...

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