Hi Johan, * Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> [2010-05-19 10:22:05 +0200]: > 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. Nice. Patch looks ok to me by the way. ;) -- Gustavo F. Padovan http://padovan.org -- 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
