Re: [PATCH 5/6] Bluetooth: mgmt: Add support for switching to LE peripheral mode

[Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012, Johan Hedberg wrote:
> This will need some more thinking. We could add a new mgmt command for
> that, or if you wanna go crazy why not map this to the L2CAP socket
> interface's connect() system call. I.e. if LE GAP is in peripheral mode
> instead of doing HCI_LE_Create_Connection or just failing with "not
> allowed" a socket connect() would simply trigger directed advertising to
> the device in question and deliver the successful connection in the same
> way as a central role triggered connect would do (unless we time out
> waiting for the remote device to connect). Now that I think of this
> second option it actually sounds quite natural and not so crazy after
> all :)

There's on problem with this though: we'd still be undirected
connectable between doing mgmt_set_le(peripheral) and issuing the socket
connect(). So maybe we might need to introduce a mgmt_set_le_connectable
command and a "le-connectable" setting after all (that could only be set
in peripheral mode).

Johan