RFC: New device filter policies

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Aleksander Morgado
<aleksander at aleksander.es> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Following the discussion regarding Debian wanting to patch
> ModemManager to avoid unnecessary probing of non-modem TTYs, I ended
> up preparing a branch that implements a set of "filter policies"
> composed of different "filter rules".
>
> See documentation for the filter rules here:
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/ModemManager/api/1.8.0/ref-overview-modem-filter.html
>
> And documentation for the filter policies here:
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/ModemManager/api/1.8.0/ch03s02.html
>
> By default ModemManager would use the "DEFAULT" filter policy, which
> is equivalent to the logic we've been using in previous releases. But
> these patches also allow stricter policies (e.g. the "STRICT" one)
> that would not allow probing of non-modem TTYs (but may also not allow
> probing of modem TTYs not covered by the default heuristics!).
>
> This is now implemented in the "device-filter-policies" branch in my
> github repo:
> https://github.com/aleksander0m/ModemManager/commits/device-filter-policies
>
> One quick test that you all may do would be to build ModemManager from
> this branch and run it in STRICT mode, and see if your modems are
> still completely probed and that non-modem TTYs aren't probed:
> # /usr/sbin/ModemManager --filter-policy=STRICT --debug
>
> Comments?
>

I've merged this to git master now; probably one of the biggest
changes that will go to the next stable version!

-- 
Aleksander
https://aleksander.es