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Vaclav_5-Mar-19 9:03
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Vaclav_ wrote:
it looks as Linux (kernel) contains "module" to interact with bluetooth.

Correct. The linux kernel needs to know how to communicate with a bluetooth adapter much the same as it needs to know how to communicate to a USB port or a NIC, etc. Bluetooth is quite ubiquitous these days, so the bluetooth module has been folded into the mainline kernel for quite some time.

Vaclav_ wrote:
That "module" is based on "bluez" and they call it "stack" which I do not get. Why "stack" - isn't stack related to memory usage?

"Stack" in this sense is similar to what's known as a solution stack. The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is an example. In this case the bluetooth hardware driver and the user tools are the bluetooth management stack.

Vaclav_ wrote:
Why would one care where is the "bluez" physically?
OS should take care of that.

As long as it all works, you don't need to worry about where various bits are, the distribution installation packages manage all that for you.

Vaclav_ wrote:
Now "bluez" can be installed into "user space".
And used for what ?

The kernel module only provides the hardware protocols to the linux kernel. To be able to do anything useful, you need the user-space tools such as bluetoothctl or btattch. This is no different, really, than the kernel module for your NIC which supplies the hardware protocols for network access and user space tools like ifconfig, ping and ssh which provide user level control and access to the network.

Vaclav_ wrote:
To develop (C++) app for Bluetooth another app - "libbluetooth-dev" - has to be installed and configured for applicable architecture.

"libblutooth-dev" is based on "bluez".
Does that makes sense?


libbluetooth-dev is not an app, its the extra things on top of the bluez package that allow you to develop software which will communicate with or via a bluetooth controller. Suppose you have a production system that needs bluetooth - then you would only deploy the bluez package there. Typically, production systems should not contain any development tools, as you don't want random people creating software, or stealing cycles, on production systems. Your development system, on the other hand, not only needs compilers (gcc, g++, rustc, etc), but also needs include-files, debug libraries, etc so you can develop your application. Those items are generally divided out into the -dev packages, to allow for development/production separation.
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