[RFC] Initial support for the new MC74XX modules

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > The new Sierra MC74XX modules are very very different to all previous
> > Sierra modules. Among other things, they always work in raw-ip mode,
> > and they also don't implement "DMS UIM" commands.
> >
> > This series of patches introduces some initial support for these
> > modules, by trying to modify the expected link layer protocol in the
> > kernel to the one reported via WDA (if any), and also by implementing
> > the "unlock required" check using "UIM Get Card Status" instead of
> > "DMS UIM Get PIN status". There are multiple other operations based
> > on "DMS UIM" that should be updated to use "UIM" service operations,
> > but this one at least allows using the module when the SIM card has
> > PIN request disabled.
> >
> > There's also another patch which ends up requesting Static IP
> > configuration on the newly connected Bearer if raw-ip is used; for
> > now to avoid needing a DHCP client with raw-ip support.
> >
> > Comments welcome!
>
> Patches look good to me.


I've merged the patches now in both libqmi and ModemManager; still
without PIN unlocking support; that should go next.


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