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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Andre Guedes <andre.guedes@openbossa.org>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] Bluetooth: Add hci_le_scan()
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:41:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327959703.1955.169.camel@aeonflux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327531949-29463-5-git-send-email-andre.guedes@openbossa.org>

Hi Andre,

> We are not supposed to block in start_discovery() because
> start_discovery code is running in write() syscall context
> and this would block the write operation on the mgmt socket.
> This way, we cannot directly call hci_do_le_scan() to scan
> LE devices in start_discovery(). To overcome this issue a
> derefered work (hdev->le_scan) was created so we can properly
> call hci_do_le_scan().
> 
> The helper function hci_le_scan() simply set LE scan parameters
> and queue hdev->le_scan work. The work is queued on system_long_wq
> since it can sleep for a few seconds in the worst case (timeout).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Guedes <andre.guedes@openbossa.org>
> ---
>  include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h |   12 ++++++++++++
>  net/bluetooth/hci_core.c         |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

so I am fine with this one, but we might need to make this one generic
as well (if possible).

Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-30 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-25 22:52 [PATCH v3 0/6] MGMT Start Discovery command LE-Only Support Andre Guedes
2012-01-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] Bluetooth: LE scan should send Discovering events Andre Guedes
2012-01-30 21:35   ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-01-31 13:41     ` Andre Guedes
2012-01-31 15:12       ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-01-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] Bluetooth: Add helper functions to send LE scan commands Andre Guedes
2012-01-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] Bluetooth: Add hci_do_le_scan() Andre Guedes
2012-01-30 21:38   ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-01-30 23:22     ` Andre Guedes
2012-01-31  0:51       ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-01-31 13:42         ` Andre Guedes
2012-01-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] Bluetooth: Add hci_le_scan() Andre Guedes
2012-01-30 21:41   ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2012-01-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] Bluetooth: MGMT start discovery LE-Only support Andre Guedes
2012-01-26 12:55   ` Anderson Lizardo
2012-01-26 13:05     ` Andre Guedes
2012-01-30 21:44   ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-01-31 13:44     ` Andre Guedes
2012-01-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] Bluetooth: Fix indentation Andre Guedes
2012-01-30 21:45   ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-01-31 13:45     ` Andre Guedes

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