[RFC] rc.d integration for the bluetooth subsystem

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:26:53PM -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> All,
> 
> please find next revision of bluetooth-rc stuff at
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~emax/bluetooth-rc-1.diff.txt
> 
> in this revision i have moved all bluetooth configuration files under 
> /etc/bluetooth. bluetooth.device.sample is now called 'default.conf' and 
> file that contain device specific overrides called '$dev.conf' (i.e. 
> 'ubt0.conf').
> 
> so, '/etc/rc.d/bluetooth start $dev' does the following
> 
> 1) sets hardwired defaults (for backward compatibility)
> 
> 2) reads up /etc/bluetooth/default.conf (if any)

I think /etc/defaults/bluetooth.device.conf might be better since we do
have a defined location of default files and this will discourge people
from messing with them.

> 3) reads up /etc/bluetooth/$dev.conf (if any)
>
> 4) starts the stack
> 
> even though /etc/bluetooth/{default,$dev}.conf are not exactly shell 
> scripts they are still kinda like shell scripts :) these files should 
> follow sh(1) syntax to set the variable, comments etc.
> 
> the parser in bluetooth_read_conf() is very simple and value of a 
> variable is still used in sh(1) eval. so one must be careful when 
> editing these files.
> 
> is this looks like something? i also could write 
> bluetooth.device.conf(5) man page that describes the parameters as well 
> as the syntax of the files.

A bluetooth.device.conf(5) man page would be a good idea, though the
example file is quite good.

-- Brooks

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