[PATCH] huawei: ignore ^DSDORMANT unsolicited messages

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 09:13 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> 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?

I would argue that a Bearer property would be more appropriate, but yes
to the rest.

Dan