Hi, I helped with the kernel HID driver, but I do not know much about the bluetooth side of the story, some comments below tho. On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:52:02 +0300 Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Mark A. Haun <haunma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Luiz and the group, > > > > I captured a debug log from bluetoothd while testing the PS3 remote. I'm not > > sure it sheds any light on what is happening though. When the timeout occurs > > and the input device goes away, there is no log output from bluetoothd or the > > kernel. > > > > Here is the same test sequence as in my original post, with the bluetoothd > > lots interspersed: > > > > Press a key (or two) on the remote when it is not connected: > > > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia bluetoothd[11186]: src/adapter.c:connected_callback() hci0 device 00:21:4F:48:D1:D2 connected eir_len 5 > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia bluetoothd[11186]: profiles/input/server.c:connect_event_cb() Incoming connection from 00:21:4F:48:D1:D2 on PSM 17 > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia bluetoothd[11186]: profiles/input/device.c:input_device_set_channel() idev 0x7ff49ff8 psm 17 > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia bluetoothd[11186]: profiles/input/server.c:confirm_event_cb() > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia bluetoothd[11186]: profiles/input/server.c:connect_event_cb() Incoming connection from 00:21:4F:48:D1:D2 on PSM 19 > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia bluetoothd[11186]: profiles/input/device.c:input_device_set_channel() idev 0x7ff49ff8 psm 19 > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia bluetoothd[11186]: src/service.c:change_state() 0x7ff484a8: device 00:21:4F:48:D1:D2 profile input-hid state changed: disconnected -> connected (0) > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia bluetoothd[11186]: src/service.c:btd_service_ref() 0x7ff484a8: ref=3 > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia bluetoothd[11186]: plugins/policy.c:service_cb() Added input-hid reconnect 0 > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia kernel: [1244066.144277] input: BD Remote Control as /devices/soc0/7d004000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:256/0005:054C:0306.0006/input/input8 > > Aug 19 21:04:13 kolonia kernel: [1244066.158238] sony 0005:054C:0306.0006: input,hidraw1: BLUETOOTH HID v1.00 Gamepad [BD Remote Control] on ac:fd:ce:76:f2:4a > > > > Input device is created; can run evemu-record and watch keypress events on > > the remote. After one minute of inactivity, the remote is still sending > > packets (which can be seen in the hciconfig packet counter), but the kernel > > input device has gone away. No new messages in dmesg or in the bluetoothd > > log at this time :( > > > > <Time passes...> > > > > Remote is still connected. Forcibly disconnect using "hcitool dc 00:21:4f:48:d1:d2": > This makes me think that a udev rule can detect the kernel input device disconnection, and then force the bluetooth disconnection. [...] > > and we can again see keypresses in evemu-record, until the next timeout. > > > > About your other questions, > > > >> > The PS3 remote is definitely one of those broken devices. During > >> > bluez 4.xx there were a set of unofficial patches maintained at > >> > kitlaan.twinaxis.com (now defunct). > >> > >> Patches to what exactly, BlueZ userspace, kernel? > > > > They were patches to the bluez userspace distribution. Much of it was > > non-essential: timeout in seconds rather than minutes, and key-code > > mapping for ease of integration with media software. Details here: > > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sony_PS3_BD_Remote > > > >> Note that using IdleTimeout affects every single HID that you connect > >> over Bluetooth, which is why I think this is in the wrong place, it > >> should probably be up to the PS3 remote driver to implement such > >> policy to disconnect on idle. Either way I don't see another option > >> other then to set the socket err so userspace can cleanup it own > >> reference to the socket. > > > > By "PS3 remote driver" you mean adding an exception for the Sony remote > > in the evdev driver? Because I don't think there is a PS3 remote driver > > per se. It's just a generic HID. > > I think we might have a driver for PS3 after all, you can see from > dmesg that it is detected as a Gamepad [BD Remote Control] or is that > just the game of the device? > There is a HID driver, because the original descriptor had to be overridden in order to get useful events, but it's just HID, no explicit dependencies on input or bluetooth. [...] > > I don't know enough to understand what this was doing, but I see that > > the source was heavily reworked in kernel 3.10... If someone could > > craft a patch against recent kernels (4.2) I would be happy to test > > it. As bluez 5 rolls out to more distros, I imagine there will be > > more users wanting to know why their remote is broken :) > > Well you are the first one to complain, so either people are stuck > with very only kernel or they don't care if the controller stay always > connected. > Or they just remove the batteries when not using the remote, and are even thinking about adding a physical ON/OFF switch to the remote... Ciao, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- 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
