Bluetooth

[jjstorm]

Does OpenBSD support/provide any bluetooth drivers now a days? If it was removed, was it do to security concerns?

[jggimi]

Here is the text of the commit message when bluetooth driver modules were finally removed in July, 2014:

"It's not the years, honey; it's the mileage."

bluetooth support doesn't work and isn't going anywhere. the current design is a dead end, and should not be the basis for any future support. general consensus says to whack it so as to not mislead the unwary.

[jjstorm]

Originally Posted by jggimi

Here is the text of the commit message when bluetooth driver modules were finally removed in July, 2014:

Got it,

So from that, I take it that Theo thought OpenBSD would be better served if the developers focused energy elsewhere. I would have to agree with that assessment as well.

[jggimi]

This commit (actually, a series of commits) was from the famous tedu@, known for pruning the source tree of dead limbs.

Where I found the answer to your question:

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netbt/

The series of commits:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140511572108715&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140511594208783&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140511594408784&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140511626308877&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140511641608939&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140511666509023&w=2

Here are his comments about this from the OpenBSD Journal:

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=artic...20140729070721

This occurred during the g2k14 hackathon in Ljubljana, Slovenia.