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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Alexander H Deriziotis <deriziotis@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: non-blocking hci_inquiry()
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:31:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248784304.28545.226.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5eee8c670907280455ube96c5aka5a9a97149034a71@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Alex,

> I've been playing with the linux wiimote daemon called Cwiid, and
> noticed that while it's waiting for a connection from a wiimote, it's
> blocking the bluetooth adapter from doing anything else.
> 
> Searching around and looking at the code, I can see it's calling
> hci_inquiry() in a loop which is blocking the device.
> 
> Does a non-blocking hci_inquiry() function exist? If not, could I get
> some help on how to go about writing one?

use the D-Bus interface for non-blocking inquiry.

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-28 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5eee8c670907280453i76f4957fvcca9c3954576580d@mail.gmail.com>
2009-07-28 11:55 ` non-blocking hci_inquiry() Alexander H Deriziotis
2009-07-28 12:31   ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-08-12 22:37     ` Alexander H Deriziotis
2009-08-12 22:40       ` Marcel Holtmann

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