[PATCH] hal probe modem caps ondemand

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 14:41 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Vitja,
> 
> > >  > > > Probe CDC-ACM modems, found in most cell phones on the fly, using
> > >  > > > AT+GCAP modem command.
> > >  > > > I tested it with 1 Nokia GSM phone, and 2 CDMA.
> > >  > >
> > >  > > Great!  Thanks for writing this.
> > >  > >
> > >  > > So what we can do now is remove all the matches for individual devices
> > >  > > in the fdi file, and just match on the driver name for nozomi, airprime,
> > >  > > option, and sierra.  We'll have a few left-over items that aren't driven
> > >  > > by those, but those devices will either use cdc_acm (and therefore be
> > >  > > probed) or we can just tag them to be probed automatically.  Not sure
> > >  > > how this works on BSD and Solaris though; if they don't have separate
> > >  > > drivers to run the mobile broadband cards then they'd have to revert
> > >  > > back to the per-device tagging to know when to probe and when not to
> > >  > > probe.
> > >  >
> > >  > be careful with this. If the SIM card needs a PIN code first, we might
> > >  > not be able to send any AT commands at all. I tried for example to get
> > >  > the IMEI before entering the PIN, but that never worked on the cards
> > >  > that I own.
> > >
> > >  Hmm, does that mean the device will only respond to AT+CPIN"xxxx" until
> > >  you give it the PIN?
> >
> > 
> > I tried to get caps from my phone w/o sim card inserted.
> > And it worked. I'm thinking that it will work for gsm modem too, w/o
> > pin entered.
> 
> you think doesn't help us here. We actually have to test all modem cards
> and see if that works. A phone without a SIM card is different than a
> modem card. Also a phone with Symbian OS is different than other OS.
> 
> > But I see another one problem. One of phones that I have access to,
> > doesn't report caps when booting,
> > that's cdma phone and it takes few seconds to boot/read data from
> > card. It CDC device appears and doesn't
> > work until boot is complete. You can re-plug the phone, but this bug
> > is annoying. May be special method should be added like ProbeCaps
> > to modem device?
> 
> If we can annotate the modem caps via FDI files using the USB vendor and
> product id, I am for doing that. Having HAL open the TTY device is not a
> good idea. Especially since not all GSM/UMTS/CDMA modem follow clear
> standards and some of them are picky about the AT commands that are sent
> and in which order.

The whole point of auto-probing was so that we wouldn't have to keep
changing a huge table of IDs in the fdi files.  We need to turn
10-modem.fdi into a quirks file really, where the things that _don't_
work with autoprobing are quirked but everything else that's driven by
cdc-acm, option, hso, sierra, airprime, etc get autoprobed by default.
Obviously we shouldn't probe straight-up serial lines, and we'll need to
mark some things driven by the PCMCIA serial driver explicitly probed
(Sierra AirCard 860 for example).

Dan