With the new interface, an application can easily retrieve the
underlying transport type from the device descriptors and present a
custom user interface element to the end-user for supplying transport
specific parameters. For example the serial port for devices using
serial communcication.
For devices using a usb-serial chipset or the bluetooth Serial Port
Profile (SPP/rfcomm), the transport type is DC_TRANSPORT_SERIAL, because
internally the serial emulation layer is used for the communication.
Applications can now enumerate all the supported devices at runtime,
and don't have to maintain their own list anymore. The internal list
does include only those devices that have been confirmed to work at
least once without any major problems.
As the name already indicates, a device descriptor is lightweight
object which describes a single device. Currently, the api supports
getting the device name (vendor and product) and model number. But
this can extended with other features when necessary.
