Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add API to retrieve the Bluetooth Device Address (BD_ADDR)

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:03:15PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 9/20/2018 7:01 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > Certainly true if this was the only driver. However another one will
> > follow soon and 'local-bd-address' is the official binding, so it's
> > not unlikely there will be more.
> 
> I was missing this information.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth.txt

> Is there a way to convert existing users to this if any as well?

It depends.

If the existing users use a *really* reasonable name for the property
and use the same format it could be an option to add it to the lookup
besides 'local-bd-address', similar to what fwnode_get_mac_address()
does.

If the existing users populate a custom property with the BD address
in the bootloader you could roll out a bootloader change. You'd have
to make sure that bootloader and kernel match. The bootloader could
still populate the custom property to be compatible with 'old'
kernels.