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Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] doc: Add reauthentication commands and event to Management API
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 03:57:24 +0900
Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@openbossa.org>,
	linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
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To: Szymon Janc <szymon.janc@gmail.com>
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Hi Szymon,

>>> Those will be used to allow/disallow of performing remote device
>>> reauthentication.
>> 
>> I guess you could expand this explaining why you need this in the MGMT API,
>> i.e. why this can't be implemented on userspace only.
> 
> This will allow to avoid ACL disconnect in case of auth failure and should
> allow to reauth also for incoming connections e.g. this is what Android do.
> I couldn't figure out how this could be achieved in userspace only but if it
> is possible I'm totally after userspace-only implementation.

can someone send around some btmon traces that would demonstrate this. I am not really following on what the issue here is and what we trying to solve.

Regards

Marcel