• Corpus ID: 16442934

The Evolution of Bluetooth Drivers in Linux

@inproceedings{Khan2009TheEO,
  title={The Evolution of Bluetooth Drivers in Linux},
  author={Furqan Muhammad Khan and Zainab Meraj and Ramanan Mylvaganam},
  year={2009}
}

• F. Khan, Zainab Meraj, Ramanan Mylvaganam
• Published 2009
• Computer Science

Software systems can often be large or small complex systems. Without proper documentation or documentation not corresponding to the actual architecture, these systems are difficult to understand, utilize and maintain. As a software system evolves, its structure encounters major changes over time. In this report, we present an investigation technique in understanding these changes as a system evolves. The system we choose to study is the kernel space Bluetooth HCI subsystem. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach, we then analyze the statistics gathered from multiple Bluetooth driver versions and present our own observational views on how Bluetooth driver subsystem evolve in Linux. Our study results in documentation that is useful for understanding the Bluetooth driver structure on the Linux system and its evolving nature. We find that this analysis technique can be effectively used to study both tradition and open source system evolution.