Re: [Bluez PATCH 01/62] lib: Inclusive language in HCI commands and events

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Luiz,

>>> "central" and "peripheral" are preferred, as reflected in the BT
>>> core spec 5.3.
>>> 
>>> Reviewed-by: Miao-chen Chou <mcchou@chromium.org>
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> lib/hci.h          | 14 +++++++-------
>> 
>> until we deprecate libbluetooth and no longer give an option to install it, you can not do this. It is part of libbluetooth and this would break API.
> 
> Couldn't we perhaps bump the major version so we could move on with
> these changes, or would you like to deprecate the libbluetooth before
> we move to e.g. BlueZ 6.0? Since we have done these changes on the
> kernel size I wonder also if it shouldn't reflect into userspace
> though, we could perhaps keep the old definition alongside with the
> new though so we don't break userspace tools/apps which may still be
> using the old definitions.

I think we need to get rid of libbluetooth really fast. In addition we also should remove the Android code. Both seems to be not really needed anymore.

Regards

Marcel