Re: d-bus or management api for beacon stuff

[Brennan Ashton <brn@deako.com>]

On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 16:36 -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:28:42PM -0800, Brennan Ashton wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I have had to resort to using the HCI interface to work with
> > > > scanning
> > > > and advertising beacon packets.  I had mentioned in an earlier
> > > > thread
> > > > the issue with duplicates.  Not only do you end up with a lot
> > > > of
> > > > spam
> > > > on the dbus interface you end up with an ever increasing number
> > > > of
> > > > bluetooth devices.  The Bluetooth mesh uses this transport, so
> > > > I
> > > > really
> > > > would like to see a nice interface to support rx/tx of these
> > > > packets.
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Sorry for being ignorant (as I can't quite find the filter
> > > duplicate
> > > code
> > > other than the setting of the bit), but would throttling work
> > > here?  Cap the
> > > duplicates at say every 100ms or 10x/second.  That probably won't
> > > help with
> > > power consumption (unless start/stop of the radio is quick?).
> > > 
> > > Just trying to help move this along..  willing to code/test.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Don
> > > 
> > The thread I mentioned is here:
> > https://marc.info/?t=147345134200002&r=1&w=2
> > 
> > The constant of interest is this LE_SCAN_FILTER_DUP_ENABLE.  I had
> > to
> > recompile with this disabled because I never wanted the filter for
> > my
> > application.  I had proposed making this an option in the adaptor
> > interface, but there did not seem to be any interest.
> 
> Hi Brennan,
> 
> Yup, I saw that thread earlier and that flag.  I wasn't sure how that
> flag
> was being propagated.  Does it go right to the device?  I guess I
> thought
> the kernel was filtering duplicates, but perhaps not?
> 
> Cheers,
> Don

It is set in all the LE_SET_SCAN_ENABLE HCI requests so the device is
doing the actual filtering.