[RFC] Initial support for the new MC74XX modules

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Thomas Schäfer <tschaefer at t-online.de> wrote:
>> > Today I tested also devices which work better with raw-ip than with 802.3.
>> >
>> >
>> > K5006-Z
>> > MF821D
>> > XS-Stick W100-2 LTE
>> >
>> > But they don't switch automatically. How can I reach that?
>>
>> If they start off in raw-ip mode, they will work in raw-ip mode.
>> ModemManager won't switch them to raw-ip mode by default. The only
>> thing I can think of is if you switch them with qmicli before starting
>> ModemManager.
>
> I was thinking more of a general solution.
> Maybe we should switch a whole class of devices to raw-ip default.
> But I don't know how to do that. At the end, the user should not care about -
> just plug & play via kernel/udev/mm/nm - just as usual.

I think the current compromise in git master is the correct one; i.e.
default to raw-ip only if the modem starts up in raw-ip and if the
kernel supports it. For special cases we could add some new udev rule
maybe?

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Aleksander
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