MBIM enabled by default

Aleksander Morgado aleksander at lanedo.com
Thu Jul 11 22:59:49 PDT 2013


On 11/07/13 19:07, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>> > >> I'd like to setup MBIM support enabled by default when running configure
>>>> > >> in MM (currently is 'auto', i.e. use MBIM if libmbim-glib is found).
>>>> > >> With the change, you'll need to use --without-mbim explicitly if you
>>>> > >> don't want it.
>>> > > 
>>> > > Hmm. Why do you want that? It would make it harder to build MM where
>>> > > there is no libmbim easily available. AFAIK there is no Deb package for
>>> > > libmbim.
>>> > > 
>> > 
>> > Maybe there should be one? Also, remember that you can still use
>> > --without-mbim during configure.
> I'm fine with this, but configure should print a very informative
> message saying like "libmbim not found; to build without MBIM support,
> use --without-mbim at configure time" or something like that, and do the
> same for QMI.  Does that sound reasonable?  Otherwise you're just left
> with pkgconfigs "couldn't find libmbim >= xxx" which means people will
> usually assume that it's a hard requirement.

Ah, not a bad idea, will do that.

-- 
Aleksander


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