[ANN] ModemManager 1.2-rc1

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 11:02 +0100, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
>> On 13/01/14 10:41, Thomas Schäfer wrote:
>> >>> I ordered an unlocked ZTE MF60 myself yesterday from ebay; so I'll be
>> >>> able to do that once I get it. Meanwhile, we can probably just keep on
>> >>> with no-QMI in the ZTE devices for 1.2?
>> >>
>> >> Sure.  Better keep something that is known to be working.
>> >
>> > I am not sure, if one zte device should make a decision for all zte
>> > devices.
>> >
>> > The K5006Z and ZTE LTE 4G MF821D work (better) with qmi.
>> >
>> > The discussion does a loop, sorry.
>>
>> We can also always setup the blacklist for the MF60 only, and enable all
>> the others with QMI; or otherwise, setup a whitelist for the known
>> working devices for now, until we know more about the others? I really
>> don't have a strong opinion on that...
>>
>> Dan, what do you think?
>
> I don't have a strong opinion either, but my first thought is to
> blacklist devices that don't work.  Do we have any idea whether these
> devices are older, or just plain dumb?  eg, could we automatically skip
> QMI in the ZTE plugin if the NAS version is < 1.2 or something like
> that?  Or are these devices newer, but braindead?
>

For the MF60 I only recall some tests done by Bjørn back in the day,
where IIRC he said the WDS service wasn't behaving properly. Once I
get the one I bought I'll recheck what happens with the WDS service in
that one, but anyway, maybe it's not a bad idea to enable QMI for all
ZTE devices; especially when the MF60 is actually a MiFi device (e.g.
not actually critical if it isn't properly handled by MM).

-- 
Aleksander