Re: [RFC v3 1/5] Bluetooth: Add address type to struct sockaddr_l2

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Hi Marcel,

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Andre,
>
>> This patch adds the address type info to struct sockaddr_l2 so
>> user-space can inform the remote device address type required
>> to establish LE connections.
>>
>> Soon, instead of looking the advertising cache up to discover the
>> address type, we'll use this address type info to establish LE
>> connections.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Guedes <andre.guedes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h |    1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h b/include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h
>> index f6f0500..d14967e 100644
>> --- a/include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h
>> +++ b/include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h
>> @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ struct sockaddr_l2 {
>>       __le16          l2_psm;
>>       bdaddr_t        l2_bdaddr;
>>       __le16          l2_cid;
>> +     __u8            l2_bdaddr_type;
>>  };
>
> so I am trying to come up with a better name for this value. It feels a
> little bit too long to me.
>
> I was considering l2_bdtype, but that is not really semantically correct
> here. Or would it be fine? We could do l2_bdatype, but that does not
> really make it any better either.

Yes, it is a little big to me too. But that was the best name I could
find. Other names just don't clearly say what this field means.

BR,

Andre
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