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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:03:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: Generic Attribute API race condition
From: Anderson Lizardo <anderson.lizardo@openbossa.org>
To: Claudio Takahasi <claudio.takahasi@openbossa.org>
Cc: ingas@codeaurora.org, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
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Hi,

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Claudio Takahasi
<claudio.takahasi@openbossa.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:50 PM, ?<ingas@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> I ran into a similar problem. Cannot we just delay the return of
>> DiscoverCharacteristics method call until after the characteristic
>> values/properties have been acquired? I tried out this solution and it
>> seems to work fine. The trick is to implement internal counter for
>> received responses from the remote device + timeout that is reset on each
>> successful response. Any thoughts on this?
>
> IMO delay the return of DiscoverCharacteristics method is the most
> simple solution.

What about the D-Bus timeout (small) versus GATT timeout (30 seconds)
? We should avoid getting those "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply:
Did not receive a reply." errors.

Regards,
-- 
Anderson Lizardo
Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia - INdT
Manaus - Brazil