Stephan Gerhold
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Recent changes in the WWAN framework in the kernel changed the WWAN port names from e.g. "wwan0p1AT" and "wwan0p2QMI" to "wwan0at0" and "wwan0qmi0" [1, 2]. This means that the udev rules no longer match since AT/QMI are now lower-case and no longer at the end of the name. However, recently additionally a "type" sysfs attribute was added for all WWAN ports [3], which makes it much more reliable to match the WWAN port names without relying on their exact device name. Add some additional udev rules to apply the port hints based on the "type" sysfs attributes. This fixes the port enumeration on newer Linux kernels that include the aforementioned commits. Note that we still need to keep the old udev rules for now since Linux 5.13 does not have the "type" attribute yet. [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=392c26f7f133b9f09e5f58db1ce6ef4b3b4df49f [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=f458709ff40b0d992fec496952f79c7820dd3fde [3]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=b3e22e10fdda8e7be3830289a4a63ae8b88d450c
ModemManager. ModemManager provides a unified high level API for communicating with mobile broadband modems, regardless of the protocol used to communicate with the actual device (Generic AT, vendor-specific AT, QCDM, QMI, MBIM...). Using. ModemManager is a system daemon and is not meant to be used directly from the command line. However, since it provides a DBus API, it is possible to use 'dbus-send' commands or the new 'mmcli' command line interface to control it from the terminal. The devices are queried from udev and automatically updated based on hardware events, although a manual re-scan can also be requested to look for RS232 modems. Implementation. ModemManager is a DBus system bus activated service (meaning it's started automatically when a request arrives). It is written in C, using glib and gio. Several GInterfaces specify different features that the modems support, including the generic MMIfaceModem3gpp and MMIfaceModemCdma which provide basic operations for 3GPP (GSM, UMTS, LTE) or CDMA (CDMA1x, EV-DO) modems. If a given feature is not available in the modem, the specific interface will not be exported in DBus. Plugins. Plugins are loaded on startup, and must implement the MMPlugin interface. It consists of a couple of methods which tell the daemon whether the plugin supports a port and to create custom MMBroadbandModem implementations. It most likely makes sense to derive custom modem implementations from one of the generic classes and just add (or override) operations which are not standard. There are multiple fully working plugins in the plugins/ directory that can be used as an example for writing new plugins. Writing new plugins is highly encouraged! The plugin API is open for changes, so if you're writing a plugin and need to add or change some public method, feel free to suggest it! License. The ModemManager and mmcli binaries are both GPLv2+. The libmm-glib library is LGPLv2+. Code of Conduct. Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms, which you can find in the following link: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct CoC issues may be raised to the project maintainers at the following address: modemmanager-devel-owner@lists.freedesktop.org