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From: "michal.lowas-rzechonek@silvair.com"  <michal.lowas-rzechonek@silvair.com>
To: "Gix, Brian" <brian.gix@intel.com>
Cc: "Stotland, Inga" <inga.stotland@intel.com>,
	"linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH BlueZ 0/2] mesh: Implement org.bluez.mesh.Node1 properties
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:02:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190827200236.kyhdu5jjgq7roevw@kynes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1642e6a33df45cbc41c1bcd42878dabbc7576b3.camel@intel.com>

Brian, Inga,

On 08/27, Gix, Brian wrote:
> > The address part is useful when application would like to talk to its
> > own node's Config or Health Server.
> > (...)
> I think I am OK with this...   It is hard to make the argument that
> this would be an information leak when the information has been
> revealed before. And certain nodes (if they are authorized) need to be
> able to talk to their own config servers.

Ack.

> > As for sequence number part (...) I would like to make it writable
> > (increment-only) to enable address reuse, but as this stage I'm
> > still looking for a way to implement this without causing a race
> > condition, so I left it readonly for now.
> 
> This is where I start to see actual danger, and difficulty when
> considering the NVM system is "pre-reserving" sequence numbers to
> prevent NVM thrashing during heavy use. In the spirit of keeping an
> API as small as possible, giving applications the ability to adjust
> the SeqNum (even in the legal direction) should have a rock solid
> justification.

Ok, fair enough. I'm gonna drop this property in v2.

regards
-- 
Michał Lowas-Rzechonek <michal.lowas-rzechonek@silvair.com>
Silvair http://silvair.com
Jasnogórska 44, 31-358 Krakow, POLAND

      reply	other threads:[~2019-08-27 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-27  9:08 [PATCH BlueZ 0/2] mesh: Implement org.bluez.mesh.Node1 properties Michał Lowas-Rzechonek
2019-08-27  9:08 ` [PATCH BlueZ 1/2] mesh: Implement properties on org.bluez.mesh.Node1 interface Michał Lowas-Rzechonek
2019-08-27  9:08 ` [PATCH BlueZ 2/2] mesh: Add properties to Node1 interface Michał Lowas-Rzechonek
2019-08-27 17:41 ` [PATCH BlueZ 0/2] mesh: Implement org.bluez.mesh.Node1 properties Stotland, Inga
2019-08-27 18:23   ` michal.lowas-rzechonek
2019-08-27 19:10     ` Gix, Brian
2019-08-27 20:02       ` michal.lowas-rzechonek [this message]

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