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Diffstat (limited to 'src/bluetooth/qlowenergycontroller.cpp')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/bluetooth/qlowenergycontroller.cpp b/src/bluetooth/qlowenergycontroller.cpp index a3aad282..2337268d 100644 --- a/src/bluetooth/qlowenergycontroller.cpp +++ b/src/bluetooth/qlowenergycontroller.cpp @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /**************************************************************************** ** -** Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd. +** Copyright (C) 2017 The Qt Company Ltd. ** Contact: https://www.qt.io/licensing/ ** ** This file is part of the QtBluetooth module of the Qt Toolkit. @@ -691,6 +691,19 @@ QLowEnergyController::RemoteAddressType QLowEnergyController::remoteAddressType( /*! Sets the remote address \a type. The type is required to connect to the remote Bluetooth Low Energy device. + + This attribute is only required to be set on Linux/BlueZ systems with older + Linux kernels (v3.3 or lower), or if CAP_NET_ADMIN is not set for the executable. + The default value of the attribute is \l RandomAddress. + + \note All other platforms handle this flag transparently and therefore applications + can ignore it entirely. On Linux, the address type flag is not directly exposed + by BlueZ although some use cases do require this information. The only way to detect + the flag is via the Linux kernel's Bluetooth Management API (kernel + version 3.4+ required). This API requires CAP_NET_ADMIN capabilities though. If the + local QtBluetooth process has this capability set QtBluetooth will use the API. This + assumes that \l QBluetoothDeviceDiscoveryAgent was used prior to calling + \l QLowEnergyController::connectToDevice(). */ void QLowEnergyController::setRemoteAddressType( QLowEnergyController::RemoteAddressType type) |