Hello Johan, Thank you very much for your reply, it's much clearer now! Natalya 2017-05-16 16:24 GMT+02:00 Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Natalya, > > On Tue, May 16, 2017, Natalya Rozhnova wrote: >> I'm trying to understand the mgmt events in Bluez. >> If I understand correctly, the MGMT_OP_... commands are first sent as following: >> >> mgmt_send(adapter->mgmt, MGMT_OP_START_DISCOVERY, ...) >> >> And then it should trigger a corresponding event like >> MGMT_EV_DISCOVERING, MGMT_EV_DEVICE_FOUND etc. >> >> I'm quite lost in understanding who, where and how generates these >> MGMT_EV... events... >> Could anybody please explain this on a simple example or showing a >> piece of code in bluez sources where it is done... > > The mgmt protocol is a protocol between user space and the kernel. User > space (normally bluetoothd) sends commands to the kernel, and the kernel > sends events to user space. You can find the kernel-side implementation > in net/bluetooth/mgmt.c. > > 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
