[PATCH] dbus: Making the peer's properties acessible separately

Flávio Ceolin flavio.ceolin at profusion.mobi
Fri Feb 3 18:30:14 EST 2012


Hi Jouni and Reinette,

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Reinette Chatre
<reinette.chatre at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Jouni and Flávio,
>
> On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 23:13 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 06:52:18PM -0200, Flávio Ceolin wrote:
>> > How there is the method org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll
>> > that returns all properties from a specific interface, makes more
>> > sense separate the properties to be possible to get only a specific
>> > property using the method org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get.
>>
>> While this may be a good change from the design view point, I'm a bit
>> worried about changing this interface if it breaks existing applications
>> that use the interface. The P2P extensions are relatively recent, so
>> this could still be acceptable, but I'm not going to apply this in the
>> current form until I hear an ack or two from people who are using this
>> interface.
>
> We are using this interface and can support this change. Since this is
> an API change, could you please support this going to hostap-1? I take
> the liberty to add that new tag below.
>
> Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre at intel.com>
> intended-for: hostap-1
>
> Flávio: I am just curious ... are you planning a similar change to the
> P2PDeviceProperties on the P2PDevice interface?
>
> Reinette
>
>
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Thanks for the feedback folks.

Reinnet, answering your question, yes I've plan to do it,
I'm just waiting the feedback for these changes.

I think it's a good time to do it since this code is still
recent.

Regards,
Flávio Ceolin


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