Re: sniff mode

[Ville Tervo <ville.tervo@nokia.com>]

ext Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Luiz,
> 
>>>> It is just me or hci_conn_enter_active_mode will never do what its
>>>> name suggests. This check will always succeed:
>>>>
>>>>       if (conn->mode != HCI_CM_SNIFF || !conn->power_save)
>>>>               goto timer;
>>> so conn->power_save is used to disable automatic sniff mode for incoming
>>> connections. Mainly HID since they manager it by themselves.
>> Hmm, but this seems to be done for any device regardless of its type.
>> So for example we start sending/receiving data to a headset it will
>> triggers hci_conn_enter_active_mode which I thought would exit sniff
>> mode, right? (yep, I have seem some headset that doesn't leave sniff
>> mode by their own).
> 
> I said this before. We need a socket option for L2CAP and RFCOMM that
> can trigger leaving sniff mode even if the remote device initiated the
> connection.
> 

I guess I need to take this on my TODO list. Or is some one already 
working on this?

-- 
Ville