Re: [PATCH v2 02/13] Add Bluetooth address type definition

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Hi,

On 09:03 Wed 04 May, Johan Hedberg wrote:
> Hi Claudio,
> 
> On Tue, May 03, 2011, Claudio Takahasi wrote:
> > Values defined to LE(public and random) are defined in the Bluetooth
> > Core Specification. For basic rate, there isn't address type concept.
> > The constants introduced by this commit will be used to identify the
> > remote address type, basically to distinguish LE/BR devices before
> > to request the L2CAP connection.
> > ---
> >  lib/bluetooth.h |    4 ++++
> >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/bluetooth.h b/lib/bluetooth.h
> > index 738e07a..98b8f1c 100644
> > --- a/lib/bluetooth.h
> > +++ b/lib/bluetooth.h
> > @@ -130,6 +130,10 @@ typedef struct {
> >  #define BDADDR_ALL   (&(bdaddr_t) {{0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff}})
> >  #define BDADDR_LOCAL (&(bdaddr_t) {{0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff}})
> >  
> > +#define BDADDR_TYPE_LE_PUBLIC	0x00
> > +#define BRADDR_TYPE_LE_RANDOM	0x01
> > +#define BDADDR_TYPE_BR		0xff
> 
> Firstly this still needs Marcel's blessing (though I don't really see
> any other solution than an address type with three possible values).
> Secondly, if this is ever going to be added to the L2CAP socket address
> you'd have to have 0x00 as BDADDR_TYPE_BR for backwards compatibility.
> 

As Claudio explained in an earlier email, we will need a way to get the
device type when the connection with that device starts 
(MGMT_EV_DEVICE_CONNECTED), with hciops we can infer the type if we receive
the LE Meta Event.

My question is: should the event have a bdaddr_type field or a type field?

> Johan
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