Re: [PATCH 2/3] hog: re-enable HoG report notifications on HoG device reconnect

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Hi Luiz,

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
<luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Petri,
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Petri Gynther <pgynther@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Luiz,
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
>> <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Petri,
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Petri Gynther <pgynther@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On HoG device reconnect, re-enable HoG report notifications every
>>>> time by writing the client characteristic configuration attribute
>>>> of each HoG report.
>>>>
>>>> Doing this on every reconnect:
>>>> 1. ensures that HoG report notifications are always enabled
>>>>    (e.g. lost report notification state in battery swap).
>>>> 2. signals to HoG device that it can start sending HoG reports
>>>>    (e.g. buffered keypresses while the reconnect is still pending).
>>>
>>> Is that happening for a specific device? For 1 I suppose it would
>>> loose the paring keys as well which means we would not be able to
>>> connect at all as HoG mandates pairing, or does it loose only the CCC
>>> configuration? Reason 2 is not necessary the behavior every device
>>> would have, for example I don't expect a mouse to buffer anything and
>>> even a keyboard may buffer only the last key pressed since it might
>>> have very little memory to spend in buffering, anyway I suppose reason
>>> 1 is what you should really concentrate to tell us what is going on.
>>>
>>
>> On the device that I'm working on, pairing info is stored in
>> persistent storage, so it survives battery swap. However, I'm not sure
>> yet about HoG report notification enable/disable state. Waiting for
>> confirmation from vendor.
>
> I would expect it to store the CCC state as well in the persistent
> storage if one exists.
>
>> Anyways, we are seeing (2). The first keypress from HoG device is
>> getting lost on reconnect, leading to bad user experience. The device
>> is sending the keypress immediately when the connection is good, but
>> too early before BlueZ has managed to re-register the handler with
>> g_attrib_register(). During the reconnect, the HoG device has no way
>> of knowing when BlueZ is ready and has registered the handler. So, to
>> provide this indication, I propose to re-enable the HoG report
>> notification every time.
>
> But I already fixed this problem not long ago:
>
> commit 14569a33418a4c1dc07cca090b9336373d63a085
> Author: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Mar 11 21:23:55 2015 +0200
>
>     core/device: Fix not handling notification
>
>     attio callbacks needs to be triggered as soon as possible once connected
>     otherwise profiles such as HoG may miss notification that are sent while
>     bt_gatt_client is doing MTU exchange.
>
> Perhaps you don't have this patch?
>

Thanks for pointing this out. We are still using BlueZ 5.28, so don't
have this. I'll patch this in and see how HoG reconnect works then.

>>>> ---
>>>>  profiles/input/hog.c | 5 +----
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/profiles/input/hog.c b/profiles/input/hog.c
>>>> index c55443c..690fd43 100644
>>>> --- a/profiles/input/hog.c
>>>> +++ b/profiles/input/hog.c
>>>> @@ -842,10 +842,7 @@ static void attio_connected_cb(GAttrib *attrib, gpointer user_data)
>>>>         for (l = hogdev->reports; l; l = l->next) {
>>>>                 struct report *r = l->data;
>>>>
>>>> -               r->notifyid = g_attrib_register(hogdev->attrib,
>>>> -                                       ATT_OP_HANDLE_NOTIFY,
>>>> -                                       r->decl->value_handle,
>>>> -                                       report_value_cb, r, NULL);
>>>> +               enable_report_notification(r);
>>>>         }
>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>
>
>
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