Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: 6lowpan: Fix disconnect bug in 6lowpan

[Alexander Aring]

Hi,

2018-01-17 7:15 GMT-05:00 Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 1:47 AM, Guo Yi <yi2010.guo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This patch fix the bluetooth 6lowpan disconnect fail bug.
>>
>> The type of the same address type have different define value in HCI layer
>> and L2CAP layer.That makes disconnect fail due to wrong network type.User
>> will not be able to disconnect from console with the network type that used
>> in connect.
>>
>> This patch add a var lookup_type, and covert the channel address type to
>> HCI address type. By these means, user can disconnect successfuly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Guo Yi <yi2010.guo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> While this fix seems alright the debugfs interface was never meant for
> production, in fact we are working on a replacement:
>

Is the new API fixing the issue that the 6LoWPAN device creation is
done by iproute e.g.:

ip link add link wpan0 name lowpan0 type lowpan

or is there a special bluetooth API call needed, like the current case
with debugfs.
I know hcis are not netdevs, but it bothers me that we running into
two different worlds on how to deal with that and it just requires
"more" special bluetooth specific handling in user space applications.
Later more "netdev" capable link layers will maybe support 6LoWPAN and
then bluetooth might the only subsystem where different handling is
needed to do such job like that.

We maybe need to support a special handling in "ip link add" to map to
bluetooth instead moving that to people in user space?

- Alex