Geoclue hardening

[Ross Burton]

[this is mailing for the benefit of the list]

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 23:11 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> My first problem was that it only loaded GPS device options on startup,
> and because it doesn't monitor clients, it would never exit. So unless
> you restarted your session, you'd never be able to use your newly setup
> Bluetooth GPS device.
> 
> I've made a patch for that case:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22380

Looks good to me, just awaiting a maintainer to approve.

> We would need some changes to the gpsd and gypsy providers to handle
> settings the options after startup.
> 
> The second problem was the horribly fragile code copied in a few modules
> to get the MAC address of the AP:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22378

Commented on, but looks good.

> Opinions needed on that.
> 
> Finally, if a few people with GeoClue API experience could take a look
> into the patch I posted at:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485472

EPIC WIN.  I'm prodding Iain and Jussi to review the geoclue side of
this.

Ross
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