hciconfig list commands (patch)
From: Richard Neill <hidden>
Date: 2013-08-27 12:11:49
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From: Richard Neill <hidden>
Date: 2013-08-27 12:11:49
Dear All,
I'd like to offer a small patch to tools/hciconfig.c (and the man page).
Currently, running the command "hciconfig hci0 commands" creates a list
of supported codes and their names in this format[1]. It's rather tricky
to interpret this format, when trying to discover the command code for a
particular named action, because both lists are very long, and run
consecutively rather than concurrently.
My patch adds an extra command ""hciconfig hci0 commands_list", which
hopefully makes this clearer, emitting output in the format of [2].
I hope this is helpful :-)
If it's necessary to have a legal declaration, then I hereby state for
the record that I, Richard Neill, wrote the attached code, and I release
it under the GPL 2+.
[1] output of "hciconfig hci0 commands"
------------------------
Commands: Octet 0 = 0xff (Bit 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
Octet 1 = 0xff (Bit 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
....
'Inquiry' 'Inquiry Cancel' 'Periodic Inquiry Mode'
'Exit Periodic Inquiry Mode' 'Create Connection' 'Disconnect'
'Add SCO Connection' 'Cancel Create Connection'
'Accept Connection Request' 'Reject Connection Request'
....
------------------------
[2] output of "hciconfig hci0 commands_list"
-------------------------
Byte: Octet: Bit: Command:
0x00 0 0 'Inquiry'
0x01 0 1 'Inquiry Cancel'
0x02 0 2 'Periodic Inquiry Mode'
0x03 0 3 'Exit Periodic Inquiry Mode'
0x04 0 4 'Create Connection'
0x05 0 5 'Disconnect'
0x06 0 6 'Add SCO Connection'
0x07 0 7 'Cancel Create Connection'
....
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Best wishes,
Richard
P.S. This is my contribution to bluez, so I hope I'm sending the right
format to the right place. If I could do this better, I'd welcome
feedback off-list.