Shearwater Petrel Download Bug

[Patrick Valsecchi]

On 16. 01. 14 22:30, Jef Driesen wrote:
> On 16-01-14 11:42, Patrick Valsecchi wrote:
>> I've investigated this issue on Linux some time ago and contacted the 
>> bluez
>> mailing list about that. They totally ignored me but a week later, 
>> another guy
>> had the same problem and did a better investigation than me. His 
>> conclusion was
>> that if we open /dev/rfcomm0 in asynchronous mode and then write to 
>> it, we are
>> screwing bluez and the first write fails because it happens before 
>> the rfcomm
>> link is completely setup.
>>
>> I've tried to modify the libdivecomputer to open in synchronous mode 
>> and then
>> set the fd to asynchrounous afterwards, but the dive transfer was 
>> still failing
>> on the first read operation. I've sniffed the USB communication and 
>> looks like
>> something is sending seemingly random characters  before and after 
>> the command
>> we send.
>>
>> Since I had the impression that I was the only one with this problem 
>> in the
>> subsurface community and the bluez community was ignoring me, I've 
>> quit after 8h
>> of investigations.
>
> This is probably related:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/42303
>
> Jef
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Yeah, that's the other guy I was talking about.