From: Alexandros Karypidis <karypid@inf.uth.gr>
To: bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] hci_conn_info struct
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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:09:14 +0300

On Thursday 09 October 2003 20:48, Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> At 10:19 AM 10/9/2003, Alexandros Karypidis wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am using hci_conn_info to obtain a list of devices I am connected to. I
> >"stole" the code from looking at what "hcitool con" does. What I want to
> > do now is figure out what the CoD of the peer device is. I would like to
> > do that in a smart way.
> >
> >I tried doing an inquiry for devices, but I never receive the device I am
> >connected to in the returned list of devices! Is this a limitation of
> >Bluetooth or coincidence?
> >
> >In any case, it seems a little silly to scan for devices in order to find
> > out the CoD of a device I am already connected to. Is there a way to
> > achive this?
>
> Actually if you don't specify IREQ_CACHE_FLUSH flag to hci_inquiry() it
> will return cached results and device you're connected too will be on the
> list for sure.

Not so. This presumes that I had previously inquired for information before 
the device connected to me. It is possible that someone may connect to me 
before I have a chance to detect him with an inquiry... :-(

-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. -- Yogi Berra.

Alexandros Karypidis
University of Thessaly
Computer & Communications Engineering dept.


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