From: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
To: Natalya Rozhnova <rozhnova.natalya@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Understanding Bluez mgmt events
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 17:24:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170516142414.GA9507@x1c> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMybWM3jHv75hrixjk3Ep8Er7Qkw8T5peKTN6SNE3qJLg9n2eg@mail.gmail.com>
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
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2017-05-16 8:49 Understanding Bluez mgmt events Natalya Rozhnova
2017-05-16 14:24 ` Johan Hedberg [this message]
2017-05-16 15:27 ` Natalya Rozhnova
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