Re: [PATCH] Update SDP storage records when a record is deleted.

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Hey Luiz, Johan:

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Jaikumar Ganesh <jaikumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Luiz:
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
> <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Jaikumar Ganesh <jaikumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > My mail to linux bluetooth bounced yesterday.  Sending it again.
>> >
>> >    The req->profiles_removed gets updated from device->uuids.
>> > However, in the case, where we are paired with the remote device and
>> > we unpair and then repair, since we will free device->uuids on the
>> > unpair, the req->profiles_removed won't get updated after the SDP
>> > query on repair. And so we would need to update the storage from
>> > device->uuids.
>>
>> Im not sure if I get you right, but if you are saying that when device
>> object is gone profiles_removed is empty that is the a new device and
>> we shouldn't have any profile at that point for consistence, so either
>> we remove the sdp cache on device_remove_stored or we never remove
>> records from the cache. Perhaps the record cache is really useless and
>> we should only cache the uuids information and query the record on
>> every connect attempt (we are going to connect anyway so the cost is
>> about the same.)
>
> When the device is removed, we remove the cache and remove the device->uuids
> value. So when the device is created the next time, we cannot depend on
> the profiles_removed value, we need to reconstruct from device->uuids.
> device_remove_drivers call is based on the profiles_removed flag and hence that
> call will never be made, when a new device is created.
>
> My change removes the dependency of SDP records and the probe_drivers,
> Thus, removal of SDP records doesn't depend on the profiles_removed flag
> but rather uses device->uuids directly.
>
> profiles_added and profiles_removed flags are useful in the case where the user
> calls discover services on an already created device and there are
> changes in the SDP
> records.
>
>>
>> > Since req->profiles_removed would be empty, device_remove_drivers
>> > won't get called. Also I believe it makes sense to have 2 functions,
>> > even though there is slight overhead, since the deletion of SDP
>> > records from storage, and removing device_probe_drivers are 2 distinct
>> > operations.
>>
>> Maybe if you called it on device_remove_stored too, but if we are
>> going to validate that information on every connection attempt I doubt
>> this is useful in the end.
>>
>> --
>> Luiz Augusto von Dentz
>> Engenheiro de Computação
>
> Thanks
> Jaikumar
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Any update on this ?

Thanks
Jaikumar
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