[RFC] aleksander/dms-0x5556 branch

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> Sounds like a good plan to me.  I have always assumed that all these
> 0x55.. requests were "vendor-specific", including the "FCC Auth"
> request.
>
>> P.S.: the only thing I'm not much convinced of is the enumeration I
>> prepared for the "DMS HP Change Device Mode" message, mainly because
>> the items in the enumeration are just taken out of my tests with the
>> HPlt4120. I just didn't want to have an API method (and qmicli
>> command) expecting a "generic integer". Maybe we should just list in
>> the enum the "fastboot" entry, which is the one used in HP firmware
>> ugprade for sure?
>
> I think it's best to be careful here until we have more test-data.
> These numbers could be static and have the same meaning across different
> modems, like the Sierra Wireless UDUSBCOMP values.  But they could also
> be dynamically allocated and therefore product, or even firmware
> revision, specific.
>
> Better limit the enum to the well known "fastboot" entry for now.

Yeah, I think that's safest as well. I'll add a new patch to remove
the other entries.
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Aleksander
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