On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:14:53 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Wippich <pewi@gw-instruments.de> wrote:

> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Matthias Becker wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I tried to read the name of different devices parallel using multi
> > threading, but without success. If there is one bluetooth device I works
> > (as there is no real multi threading). If there are who devices, the
> > same name is reported for both devices. In another test with 6 devices
> > hci_read_remote_name returned something <0 so I did not get any name at
> > all.
> 
> this won't work. Asking for the name of a device is some sort of 
> connection setup, and most (all ?) Bt chips do not allow / can not handle 
> parallel connection setups (even though parallel connections are 
> possible). 
> 
> So don't try further, the problem is outside your code (and even BlueZ). 
> 

That's not true, the reported behavior is produced by bluez-libs. I already
sent a patch to fix it and will attach that patch again to this mail.

Please let me know if that Patch fixes your problem Matthias.

Greetings

Andy

See also:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.devel/12491