[pulseaudio-discuss] Problems trying to connecf HFP device

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 18:01 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >> I'm not sure why there would be such a big pause at the connection
> >> stage. Does the big pause only happen when the BT device is connected?
> >> e.g. if it's not connected, the connection is quick?
> > 
> > Yep, only when the device is connected. Otherwise it's pretty quick.
> 
> Very odd. I'm not sure why such a thing would affect the connection phase.
> 
> I'll have to defer to cleverer people than I.... any ideas clever people?

This sounds a lot like a bug that I've heard to exist in
module-bluetooth-device. The module does something in the main thread
that in some situations can block for a long time. The connection
handling should be moved to a separate thread (or perhaps to the IO
thread).

-- 
Tanu