[RFC] Support for raw-ip only modems in libqmi/qmicli/qmi-network

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 17:39 +0100, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> This series of patches includes a new set of APIs, qmicli commands
> and qmi-network logic to handle devices which only do raw-ip, like
> the MC7455.
> 
> libqmi includes two new methods per QmiDevice:
>  qmi_device_get_expected_data_format()
>  qmi_device_set_expected_data_format()
> The implementation of these methods just reads/writes the sysfs file
> according to what's requested. I'm not 100% happy with the names
> here, maybe "qmi_device_[get|set]_kernel_expected_data_format()" or
> "qmi_device_[get|set]_kernel_data_format()" would have been better?

Might be better, I have no problem with the existing names though.

> qmicli includes two new commands:
>   --get-expected-data-format
>   --set-expected-data-format
> These commands will make use of the new libqmi APIs to read/write the
> sysfs file.
> 
> qmi-network includes some new automatic logic to work with these new
> devices. If the kernel exposes the new sysfs file, qmi-network will
> try to update the link layer protocol expected by the kernel to match
> the one reported by WDA. If the kernel doesn't expose the sysfs file,
> we fallback to request 802.3 via WDA.
> 
> What do you guys think? I know it's likely too much trouble to have
> these new APIs just to R/W the sysfs files, but I thought this
> integrates a bit better with the remaining QmiDevice implementation.

I think it's fine to have a bit more integration.

Dan