Missing HCI events

[Markus Brueffer]

Am Friday 27 January 2006 04:05 schrieb Maksim Yevmenkin:
> > In the meanwhile I have most of libkbluetooth compiling and noticed, that
> > a libhci would be very helpful and could ease future user space
> > developments/porting dramatically (I bet the GNOME guys will come up with
> > a bluetooth framework sooner or later as well). How about incorporating
> > such a lib in the basesystem along with libsdp and libbluetooth (similar
> > to lib_hci of bluez)?
>
> funny you should mention that. someone actually asked me about this a
> while ago and even promised to start the work.
>
> there was a short thread in freebsd-bluetooth
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-bluetooth/2005-September/000
>410.html
>
> and i also have few email addressed directly to me. you might want to
> contact this person and ask about the progress.

Nice, I'll contact him about his progress. In the meanwhile I have made good 
progress on libhci. I have some questions, though:

1. Is there a way to retrieve all hci node names? I know the way that ngctl(8) 
uses, but that way requires root access. Is there another way to retrieve all 
nodes with type "hci" which works with user level privileges?

2. I have some Belkin BT dongles and they return the same devices on inquiry 
multiple times. While this is allowed by the spec (Vol 2, Chapter 7.1.1 of 
the BT 1.2 spec) the spec states the following: "It is recommended that the 
Controller tries to report a particular device only once during an inquiry or 
inquiry period.". Should the removal of duplicates happen in libhci, later on 
by the user or on a lower level?

Thanks in advance,

Markus

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