Hi Johan, > > >> 1. are there controllers there which even after doing hci0 down, > > >> allows other devices to be scanned? > > >> for those what do hci0 down mean ? radio not switched off ? > > > > > > Good point, perhaps this is driver dependent, so we do it just be safe guard. > > > > I hope all devices and drivers out there consider the hci0 down as the > > radio OFF, > > I don't think there is a reason for it to be otherwise.... > > so why the safe-guard ? > > IIRC Marcel added this due to paranoia with the non-connectable GAP test > case with the BITE tester. The test kept failing even though the device > was in DOWN state. we also had the case where we considered non-connectable as off when the HCI devdown was not working properly. However this is a long time ago and has been fixed properly. So we might can remove this now. Regards Marcel -- 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