Re: mgmt-api.txt

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

Hi Randy,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013, Randy Yates wrote:
> Almost all text files in doc/ are consistently-documented dbus APIs,
> specifying service, interface, and object path.
> 
> However, doc/mgmt-api.txt is in a completely different format. It states
> something about "Packet Structures" but I have no idea which packets the
> document is referring to.
> 
> Can someone explain how to use this API? We have a requirement to set
> some of these properties, such as discoverability and link level
> security.

This is just a special socket type that kernel versions from 3.4 onwards
provide. See e.g. the mgmt_new_default() function in src/shared/mgmt.c
for an example of creating a mgmt socket that you can use to communicate
using the protocol described in mgmt-api.txt. There are also several
tools in the source tree that use mgmt sockets, e.g. tools/btmgmt
client/bluetoothctl and monitor/btmon. Looking at the source code for
those tools may also be helpful.

Johan