Hi Gustavo, On Wed, May 19, 2010, Gustavo F. Padovan wrote: > > In some circumstances it could be desirable to reject incoming > > connections on the baseband level. This patch adds this feature through > > two new ioctl's: HCIBLOCKADDR and HCIUNBLOCKADDR. Both take a simple > > Bluetooth address as a parameter. BDADDR_ANY can be used with > > HCIUNBLOCKADDR to remove all devices from the blacklist. > > Which circumstances? Whenever you have a badly behaving remote device that keeps on trying to connect to you (e.g. an OPP spambot or someone trying to actively DoS you). I gave some more details in my reply to Jaikumar a few days ago on this mailing list. Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
