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

[Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@openbossa.org>]

Hi,

On 15:04 Thu 25 Oct, Johan Hedberg wrote:
> 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).


Why not sending undirected connectable events when there's an active
listen()?

> 
> Johan


Cheers,
-- 
Vinicius