Aleksander Morgado
e9523a6abd
As soon as we get a match between the current interface being probed, and the
first expected interface to probe, clear the timeout. But this doesn't mean that
this interface being probed will be the correct one, so it may be the case that
we end up expecting a new first interface and probing another one.
With an example probably seen better...
Modem appears with interfaces 2, 3 and 4.
1. We first try to look for interface 0, which is not in the set:
1.1. Probing interfaces 2, 3 and 4 get deferred.
2. First-interface timeout happens because interface 0 doesn't appear, so we
switch to wait for interface 1:
2.1 Probing interfaces 2, 3 and 4 get deferred.
3. First-interface timeout happens because interface 1 doesn't appear, so we
switch to wait for interface 2:
3.1. We get a match on interface 2, which exists. We now remove the
first-interface timeout and start running the init sequence there.
3.2. Probing interfaces 3 and 4 get deferred.
4. Init sequence in interface 2 fails, because it is not an AT port, so we
switch to wait for interface 3:
3.1. We get a match on interface 3, which exists. We do *not* need to remove
now the first-interface timeout because this interface we are testing is
actually the second one which we tried.
So, just check whether the timeout exists or not, and if it exists remove it.
Yeah, this commit just fixes a warning at the end.
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 provice 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!