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 7:18 PM, Andre Guedes <andre.guedes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

So, do we keep this name?

Andre
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