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linux: rewrite everything to use DBus directly
This is a big rewrite to use DBus calls directly instead of going through go-bluetooth first. This is a big change, but I believe it is an improvement. While the go-bluetooth works for many cases, it's a layer in between that I believe hurts more than it helps. Without it, we can just program directly against the BlueZ D-Bus API. The end result is about 10% more code. With this rewrite, I fixed the following issues: * All MapToStruct warnings are gone, like in #193. * Advertisements can be restarted after they were stopped. Previously this resulted in a panic. * Looking at the source code of go-bluetooth, it appears that it includes devices from a different Bluetooth adapter than the one that's currently scanning. This is fixed with the rewrite. * Fix a bug in Adapter.AddService where it would only allow adding a single service. Multiple services can now be added. This was actually the motivating bug that led me down to rewrite the whole thing because I couldn't figure out where the bug was in go-bluetooth (it's many layers deep). * The `WriteEvent` callback in a characteristic now also gets the 'offset' parameter which wasn't provided by go-bluetooth. This rewrite also avoids go-bluetooth specific workarounds like #74 and #121. I have tested all examples in the smoketest-linux Makefile target. They all still work with this rewrite.
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