Thanks much, Johan. That clarifies things nicely. --Randy Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013, Johan Hedberg wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013, Randy Yates wrote: >> > Almost all text files in doc/ are consistently-documented dbus APIs, >> > specifying service, interface, and object path. >> > >> > However, doc/mgmt-api.txt is in a completely different format. It states >> > something about "Packet Structures" but I have no idea which packets the >> > document is referring to. >> > >> > Can someone explain how to use this API? We have a requirement to set >> > some of these properties, such as discoverability and link level >> > security. >> >> This is just a special socket type that kernel versions from 3.4 onwards >> provide. See e.g. the mgmt_new_default() function in src/shared/mgmt.c >> for an example of creating a mgmt socket that you can use to communicate >> using the protocol described in mgmt-api.txt. There are also several >> tools in the source tree that use mgmt sockets, e.g. tools/btmgmt >> client/bluetoothctl and monitor/btmon. Looking at the source code for >> those tools may also be helpful. > > Minor mistake there: bluetoothctl doesn't use mgmt sockets (it uses just > the D-Bus interface). I also went ahead and pushed a description of how > to create mgmt sockets to mgmt-api.txt since this was a quite obvious > omission in the file. Another file you'll probably find useful is > lib/mgmt.h which has structs and numerical definitions for the mgmt > protocol. > > Johan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Randy Yates Digital Signal Labs http://www.digitalsignallabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
