Re: [PATCH 2/2] Bluetooth: Ignore HCI_Read_Local_Commands failures

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Hi Johan,

> Some 1.2 controllers will fail the HCI_Read_Local_Commands HCI command
> even though (according to the specification) they should support it.
> Since this HCI command is part of the controller init sequence
> controllers broken in this manner would be unusable. Since not having
> the list of supported commands is not critical for these controllers it
> is better to just ignore failures in this case (additionally, this is
> also how older kernels used to behave).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/bluetooth/hci_core.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
> index 9218888..1719257 100644
> --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
> +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ void hci_req_complete(struct hci_dev *hdev, __u16 cmd, int result)
>  	if (test_bit(HCI_INIT, &hdev->flags) && hdev->init_last_cmd != cmd)
>  		return;
>  
> +	/* Some 1.2 controllers report failure for HCI_Read_Local_Commands
> +	 * even though they should support it. Since it's not a critical
> +	 * issue not to have a proper result from them just ignore a
> +	 * failure status */
> +	if (cmd == HCI_OP_READ_LOCAL_COMMANDS && result != 0)
> +		result = 0;
> +

this is pretty ugly handling. Can't we come up with something better?

Regards

Marcel


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