Same modem device using different protocols

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 13:17 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 19:46 +0200, Alex Kanavin wrote:
> > 2009/2/16 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>:
> > >> > However, at the moment I'm really lost with that. Does anyone have
> > >> > some bright ideas how this could be handled? Would it make sense to
> > >> > add all three protocols to the 0x0001 device and have network-manager
> > >> > figure out which one to use?
> > >>
> > >> Would the udev modem prober take care of this?
> > >
> > > Yes, it would.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to remove 10-modem.fdi altogether then? IMO, it's
> > a maintenance nightmare.
> 
> That's the idea.  Somebody could also build a small callout that asks
> the udev database for the capabilities of the TTY and fills in the right
> HAL properties.

NetworkManager 0.7.1 will be released (this week or early next) with
support for asking libudev for the modem capabilities, which are probed
with udev-extras (on git.kernel.org).  HAL is only asked for modem
capabilities as a fallback.

Dan