Thanks for sharing your thoughts! On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:12 AM Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 9:30 PM Yun-hao Chung <howardchung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi linux-bluetooth, > > > > Bluez doesn't disable auto-connect for trusted devices even in > > device.Disconnect. This causes users can't disconnect from peripherals > > unless they untrust the device. > > > > The behavior seems to change into this way intentionally after this change: > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg72898.html > > > > I would like to understand why this change is needed and what is the > > suggestion to disconnect a trusted device. > > This has been there for a while but if I recall correctly the problem > is that we cannot really tell when the auto-connect was disabled, > besides it was not really honoring that in case the daemon is > restarted, etc, so instead of having yet another setting to persist it > was simpler to just use the trust, or block, properties to control > auto-connect which are persisted properly, that said maybe we can make > disconnect auto block the device and then connect to unblock > automatically but I think that having the application set the block > property is probably clearer that we don't want it to be reconnected. > > -- > Luiz Augusto von Dentz
