From: Ville Tervo <ville.tervo@nokia.com>
To: ext Andre Guedes <andre.guedes@openbossa.org>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/6] LE advertising cache
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:57:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110315075742.GD4369@null> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299850377-3734-1-git-send-email-andre.guedes@openbossa.org>
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:32:51AM -0300, ext Andre Guedes wrote:
> During a LE connection establishment, the host should be able to infer the
> bdaddr type from a given bdaddr.
>
> To achieve that, during the LE scanning, the host stores the bdaddr and the
> bdaddr type gathered from advertising reports. The host keeps a list of
> advertising entry (bdaddr and bdaddr_type) for later lookup. This list will
> be called Advertising Cache.
>
> Since the penality to connect to an unreachable device is relatively high,
> we must keep only fresh advertising entries on the advertising cache. So,
> before each LE scanning the advertising cache is cleared. Also, after the LE
> scanning, a timer is set to clear the cache.
I tested these pathes with a device which had random address. Connection works
which is good.
How ever I'm not yet sure if mandatory scanning before every connect is
acceptable.
I have been playing with idea to derive address type from msb bits of the
address. Any ideaѕ what would lose in that way?
--
Ville
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-15 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-11 13:32 [RFC v2 0/6] LE advertising cache Andre Guedes
2011-03-11 13:32 ` [RFC v2 1/6] Bluetooth: Implement advertising report meta event Andre Guedes
2011-03-11 13:32 ` [RFC v2 2/6] Bluetooth: LE advertising info caching Andre Guedes
2011-03-11 13:32 ` [RFC v2 3/6] Bluetooth: Protect adv_entries with a RW semaphore Andre Guedes
2011-03-11 13:32 ` [RFC v2 4/6] Bluetooth: Check advertising cache in hci_connect() Andre Guedes
2011-03-11 13:32 ` [RFC v2 5/6] Bluetooth: Clear advertising cache before scanning Andre Guedes
2011-03-11 13:32 ` [RFC v2 6/6] Bluetooth: Add a timer to clear the advertising cache Andre Guedes
2011-03-15 7:57 ` Ville Tervo [this message]
2011-03-15 14:41 ` [RFC v2 0/6] LE " Anderson Lizardo
2011-03-16 5:53 ` Ville Tervo
2011-03-16 12:21 ` Anderson Lizardo
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