Re: [PATCH v3 13/16] Bluetooth: Fix busy condition testing for EIR and class updates

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Hi Johan,


>>> One possible solution I can think of is that we update the CoD or EIR
>>> value in hdev as soon as we create a HCI command to update the value, as
>>> opposed to updating the hdev value when the HCI command completes. This
>>> would allow us to have sensible checks on whether new HCI commands need
>>> to be queued or not. We'd then have to have some flag to indicate that
>>> there are pending EIR or CoD commands so that any of these mgmt commands
>>> don't return a direct cmd_complete just because it looks like everything
>>> is fine based on the CoD/EIR values in hdev.
>> 
>> I see the dilemma now. Still not liking it that much. I wonder if we
>> should just force one command of each opcode present at all time. No
>> special handling for any of them. If you send the same opcode twice
>> before it returned, you get busy error.
> 
> That still doesn't completely solve the issue since what we have is not
> just the same command conflicting against another pending instance of
> itself but several different commands conflicting against each other
> (since they all can cause changes to the CoD or EIR).

that is indeed a problem. As much as I do not like it, maybe doing it like you did is the only way to handle this. Can you add a comment on why we are doing this and send an updated patch series.

Regards

Marcel

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