netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Bluetooth: Report extended adv capabilities to userspace

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Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:18:38 +0200
From:   Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:     Daniel Winkler <danielwinkler@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-bluetooth <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>,
        CrosBT Upstreaming <chromeos-bluetooth-upstreaming@...omium.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Bluetooth: Report extended adv capabilities to
 userspace

Hi Daniel,

> This series improves the kernel/controller support that is reported
> to userspace for the following extended advertising features:
> 
> 1. If extended advertising is available, the number of hardware slots
> is used and reported, rather than the fixed default of 5. If no hardware
> support is available, default is used as before for software rotation.
> 
> 2. New flags indicating general hardware offloading and ability to
> set tx power level. These are kept as two separate flags because in
> the future vendor commands may allow tx power to be set without
> hardware offloading support.
> 
> 
> Daniel Winkler (2):
>  bluetooth: Report num supported adv instances for hw offloading
>  bluetooth: Add MGMT capability flags for tx power and ext advertising
> 
> include/net/bluetooth/mgmt.h | 2 ++
> net/bluetooth/hci_core.c     | 2 +-
> net/bluetooth/mgmt.c         | 8 +++++---
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

both patches have been applied to bluetooth-next tree.

Regards

Marcel