[PATCH] huawei: ignore ^DSDORMANT unsolicited messages

[Aleksander Morgado]

On 28/08/13 14:09, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 21:51 -0700, Ben Chan wrote:
>>> AFAIK dormancy applies to modems that supports data bearers.  At least
>>> in EVDO, the terminal is in dormant state when resources exist for the
>>> bearer (eg addresses, network side tunnels, etc), but the traffic
>>> channel is not actually in-use because no data is being sent or
>>> received.  QMI has a WDS event indication for dormancy, Huawei modems
>>> have indications for it, and I've seen other command sets that have this
>>> indication as well.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>
>> I noticed that the via and anydata plugin support (and currently
>> ignore) unsolicited messages for dormant state update and they both
>> seem to be CDMA specific. How about we ignore the dormancy indication
>> in the huawei plugin for now and rewire it later when MM bearer
>> supports the dormant state?
> 
> Yeah, that's perfectly fine as already agreed, sorry if I was unclear on
> that.  Was only responding to your question about what modems supported
> it.
> 

So the required update in the API would just be e.g. a boolean property
indicating whether the device is in 'dormant' state, which will only be
applicable while the modem is connected?

-- 
Aleksander