Hi Vladimir, On Thu, Jun 17, 2010, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > I have found that in the latest release of the bluez4 (4.66) timeout in > hciattach doesn't work. > > Look at this code of hciattach.c: > > static void bcsp_tshy_sig_alarm(int sig) > { > unsigned char bcsp_sync_pkt[10] = > {0xc0,0x00,0x41,0x00,0xbe,0xda,0xdc,0xed,0xed,0xc0}; > int len, retries = 0; > > if (retries < bcsp_max_retries) { > retries++; > len = write(serial_fd, &bcsp_sync_pkt, 10); > alarm(1); > return; > } > > tcflush(serial_fd, TCIOFLUSH); > fprintf(stderr, "BCSP initialization timed out\n"); > exit(1); > } > > The variable 'retries' will be always 0. Why is it not static? It was static > in oldest releases (3.33 for example). It looks to me like this is a regression introduced by commit 72c6ed7e2d619048440ff528fca7fef59887fbaf from Marcel. > I have attached simple patch to fix that. Could you please send a patch in git format-patch format and also fix the issue in in the other _alarm function (if you take a look at Marcel's patch you'll see both places that need fixing). 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