[PATCH] add device-open-net cmdline option

[Tim Harvey]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Aleksander Morgado
<aleksander at lanedo.com> wrote:
>> Aleksander,
>>
>> No problem - thanks for all your work on this project.  I hope to see
>> libqmi fully supported in OpenWrt someday soon (as in netifd/uci
>> integration like the patch you posted earlier this year that never
>> made it in).
>>
>
> The guys at OpenWRT use now "uqmi" if I'm not mistaken, see:
>  http://nbd.name/gitweb.cgi?p=uqmi.git;a=summary
>
> It's another codebase auto-generated from libqmi's JSON database of
> messages. That should already be integrated with netifd/uci, probably,
> very likely, much better than what I did with the 'qmi4g' protocol
> handler using libqmi.
>

Yes, but when I pinged Felix a week or so ago he said he never
completed the necessary work for using uqmi with netifd.

Tim

>
>> I'm hoping for some feedback on this new feature as I found I did not
>> need it for MC7750 3G.  I can not get a 4G/LTE connection on my MC7750
>> (I think its an antenna/radio issue) but I've been told by someone I'm
>> collaborating with that has the same modem that they needed this patch
>> for an 4G/LTE connection using libqmi1.6 but did strangely said they
>> did not need it for libqmi1.8.
>>
>> Does it make sense that you would need to vary the open flags for 3G
>> vs 4G?  I am fairly ignorant about how the various protocols work.
>
> Hum... I don't think there was any change between 1.6 and 1.8 which
> would 'solve' any of that in libqmi/qmicli side.
>
> --
> Aleksander