Re: [Bluez-devel] suggestion for device control

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi,

> > you can tell the kernel to switch a HCI device into raw mode and after
> > that point you have full control over that device.
> 
> I am opening the devices in raw mode, but nevertheless I capture
> reconfiguration commands from the kernel at connection time. I didn't
> yet reach the point to be able to tell how much the kernel actually
> interfers, but it does act at connection configuration time and
> l2cap/rfcomm do kick in on raw sockets. I even tried to unload the
> l2cap/rfcomm kernel modules, but they get reloaded at some point. Is
> there something else I have to switch off? (I did stop the bluetooth
> daemons like hcid, sdpd, rfcommd).
> 
> Hm. With raw, you do mean:
> 
>   socket (AF_BLUETOOTH, SOCK_RAW, BTPROTO_HCI);
> 
> right? or is there something else I need to set to raw?

that is not enough. You have to set the device into raw mode. Not only
open the raw socket. Check the source code for examples.

Regards

Marcel



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