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From:   Alain Michaud <alainmichaud@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:51:22 -0400
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Subject: Re: [BlueZ PATCH v3] doc:Adding Roles property
To:     Szymon Janc <szymon.janc@codecoup.pl>
Cc:     BlueZ <linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org>,
        Alain Michaud <alainm@chromium.org>
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:42 AM Szymon Janc <szymon.janc@codecoup.pl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday, 23 April 2020 16:23:05 CEST Alain Michaud wrote:
> > This change adds a new property to indicate the support for concurrent
> > roles which means that the controller has reported the appropriate
> > LE_Supported_States (hdev->le_states) and that the controller's driver
> > has reported correctly handling the various reported states.
> > ---
> >
> >  doc/adapter-api.txt | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/adapter-api.txt b/doc/adapter-api.txt
> > index acae032d9..1a7255750 100644
> > --- a/doc/adapter-api.txt
> > +++ b/doc/adapter-api.txt
> > @@ -326,3 +326,11 @@ Properties       string Address [readonly]
> >
> >                       Local Device ID information in modalias format
> >                       used by the kernel and udev.
> > +
> > +             array{string} Roles [readonly]
> > +
> > +                     List of supported roles. Possible values:
> > +                             "central": Supports the central role.
> > +                             "peripheral": Supports the peripheral
> role.
> > +                             "central-peripheral": Supports both
> roles
> > +
> concurrently.
>
> If this is an array os strings why central-peripheral is needed?
The keyword in the description is "concurrently".  Not all adapters
support being peripheral and central concurrently.

>
>
> --
> pozdrawiam
> Szymon Janc
>
>