Hi Martin, On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 04:30:17PM -0700, Martin Turon wrote: > +1 for graceful shutdown. > > It could also be useful for coarse, multi-protocol use cases such as using > BLE for commissioning, shutting down that stack, and then starting a 15.4 > stack such as Thread. > > In general, it would be great if nimble could support high level stack > start / stop commands such as the following shell API imply: > > ble start # start nimble stack > ble scan start # start BLE scan ... > ble scan stop # stop BLE scan > *ble stop *# NEW: gracefully shutdown nimble > > > All of the above can be supported right now, except "ble stop", so your > proposal is welcome. > > I would also suggest keeping the concepts of graceful shutdown and reset > separable.
I agree with all of the above. Unfortunately, the ability to stop the stack absent a reset, which implies the ability to reenable it, adds a bit of complexity to this feature. I think this functionality is important enough to justify the added complexity. Chris
