Re: [PATCH v2 11/16] Bluetooth: Add 'eir_len' param to mgmt_device_found()

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Hi Anderson,

> >> This patch adds a new parameter to mgmt_device_found() to inform
> >> the length of 'eir' pointer.
> >>
> >> EIR data from LE advertising report event doesn't have a fixed length
> >> as EIR data from extended inquiry result event does. We needed to
> >> change mgmt_device_found() so it copies 'eir_len' bytes instead of
> >> HCI_MAX_EIR_LENGTH.
> >
> > what is the max EIR length for LE? Is it more than with BR/EDR. Or is it
> > just variable length?
> 
> From page 1735:
> 
> "The data consists of a significant part and a non-significant part.
> [...] The non-significant part extends the Advertising and Scan
> Response data to 31 octets and shall contain all-zero octets."
> 
> So actually it is not variable length, it has 31 octets, with the
> non-significant part zero padded. BR/EDR EIR, on the other hand is 240
> bytes (with zero padding for non-significant part as well)

do we have a deep impact (memory wise) if we always pad this up to 240.
If we do, then we might wanna be smarter here anyway.

Regards

Marcel


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