Re: [RFC 2/3] Bluetooth: Add dst_type parameter to hci_connect

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Hi Marcel,

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Andre,
>
>> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012, Andre Guedes wrote:
>> >> +             le->dst_type = (dst_type == MGMT_ADDR_LE_RANDOM) ?
>> >> +                             ADDR_LE_DEV_RANDOM : ADDR_LE_DEV_PUBLIC;
>> >
>> > You might want to make a simple helper function for the type conversion.
>> >
>> > Also, I'm not so sure it's a good idea to directly reuse mgmt API
>> > defines for the L2CAP socket interface. The values may in the end be the
>> > same but probably there should be separate defines in l2cap.h.
>>
>> I'm not sure too.
>>
>> I think it would be better we define address type macros in
>> bluetooth.h and replace its prefix by BDADDR_TYPE_. So we would have
>> something like this in bluetooth.h:
>>
>> +/* BD Address type */
>> +#define BDADDR_TYPE_BREDR      0x00
>> +#define BDADDR_TYPE_LE_PUBLIC  0x01
>> +#define BDADDR_TYPE_LE_RANDOM  0x02
>> +#define BDADDR_TYPE_INVALID    0xff
>
> what is INVALID for? That seems like a pointless value to have.

Management interface defines a invalid address type macro, but I think
we can easily remove it.

>> What do you think?
>
> I also get the feeling that these are a bit long. What is the benefit of
> using BDADDR_TYPE_ namespace. Would not something like this be better:
>
>        BDADDR_BREDR     0x00
>        BDADDR_LE_PUBLIC 0x01
>        BDADDR_LE_RANDOM 0x02

Yes, it would be better. I'll work on a patch for this and add it to
the RFC v2 series.

BR,

Andre
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