huawei signal info patch by Dan

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2016-12-07 at 08:04 +0000, Mats Berndtsson wrote:
> Den 6 dec. 2016 6:53 em skrev Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 13:19 +0000, Mats Berndtsson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > sorry for some basic building related questions...
> > > 
> > > i would like to test the patch from 8/31/16 with extended signal
> > > quality monitoring for huawei (by Dan Williams)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > i git-cloned the source, but there is no configure script in
> > > there,
> > > can i copy the script from the latest release ? , (don't know how
> > > to
> > > build without one)
> > 
> > You can run autogen.sh with the same arguments you'd give to
> > configure.
> >  That will generate 'configure' from the configure.ac template and
> > then
> > run configure.  So you just need something like:
> > 
> > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> > <wait a bit>
> > make
> > 
> > > 
> > > when willl this patch be included in a release ?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > would it be possible to patch 1.6.4 using this patch or will it
> > > only
> > > work on trunk ?
> > 
> > I've cherry-picked that and other signal-related stuff (+CESQ
> > support)
> > to the dcbw/mm-1-6-signal branch.  We'll see what Aleksander says
> > about
> > merging that to MM 1.6.  In the mean time, can you try it out?
> > 
> > git checkout dcbw/mm-1-6-signal
> > ./autogen.sh <with appropriate args you'd pass to configure>
> > make
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> Thanks, it did build now , but mm dies shortly after start. I'll have
> a look at why in the next couple of days.

Yeah, odd.  I just tested with a Huawei and a non-Huawei and couldn't
get it to crash.  I didn't test with a non-Huawei that supports +CESQ
though.  If you can get a backtrace, that would be nice...

Dan