Re: [PATCH 1/3] doc/device-api: Add TxPower

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi Jakub,

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Jakub Pawlowski <jpawlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ping ?

Sorry, I forgot about this one.

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Jakub Pawlowski <jpawlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Luiz
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
>> <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Jakub,
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Jakub Pawlowski <jpawlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> This adds TxPower from advertisement data.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jakub Pawlowski <jpawlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  doc/device-api.txt | 5 +++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/doc/device-api.txt b/doc/device-api.txt
>>>> index 72c597e..875fd9d 100644
>>>> --- a/doc/device-api.txt
>>>> +++ b/doc/device-api.txt
>>>> @@ -196,6 +196,11 @@ Properties string Address [readonly]
>>>>                         Received Signal Strength Indicator of the remote
>>>>                         device (inquiry or advertising).
>>>>
>>>> +               int16 TxPower [readonly, optional]
>>>> +
>>>> +                       Advertised transmitted power level (inquiry or
>>>> +                       advertising).
>>>> +
>>>>                 dict ManufacturerData [readonly, optional]
>>>>
>>>>                         Manufacturer specific advertisement data. Keys are
>>>> --
>>>> 2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c
>>>
>>> I thought we discussed about this before and we would like to have the
>>> pathloss instead of TxPower, or do you have something else useful for
>>> TxPower?
>>
>> I don't remember such discussion, I remember we were discussing about
>> SetDiscoveryFilter, and it have option to filter by pathloss.
>> So I exposed TxPower for two reasons:
>> 1. It's just a field in advertisement, and I wanted just to access it
>> as any other.
>> 2. If I turn it into Pathloss field, it would change together with
>> RSSI, and PropertyChanged event will be doubled. Pathloss is very
>> simple to compute, so having only RSSI that change is more efficient.

Fair enough, I just notice I did not mark the these properties as
experimental in the documentation, but no need to send another version
I will fix it when applying your patches.


-- 
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
--
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




[Index of Archives]     [Bluez Devel]     [Linux Wireless Networking]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Networking]     [Linux ATH6KL]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Media Drivers]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Big List of Linux Books]

  Powered by Linux