path name rules

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:21:19PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> > > I am developing D-Bus services for BlueZ. We would like define paths
> > > names based on bluetooth device address, eg:
> > > "/org/bluez/Manager/00:0D:88:BE:89:BA/Network".However, according with
> > > D-Bus specification it is NOT possible use the character ":" in the
> > > middle of the path name. Is there a reason for doesn't allow the
> > > character ":" in the middle of the path name?
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, why not just skip the ":" characters in the device
> > address names or convert them to underlines when used in a D-BUS object
> > path?
> 
> this is the human readable way for IEEE addresses and I don't see the
> need for an application (especially for script languages like Python and
> Perl) to convert them first. Obfuscation is not really helpful.

We do the underscore thing in HAL for ethernet interfaces too:
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_11_25_d7_3d_61'

Best,
Kay