[PATCH] api: allow specifying the PDP CID to use

[Bjørn Mork]

Aleksander Morgado <aleksander at aleksander.es> writes:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Lastly, QMI doesn't even use PDP contexts, so how is that going to
>> work?  I guess you can assign the context # in the creation message,
>> but still, what does verizon recommend that QMI users do if they cannot
>> use PDP contexts?
>
> In a QMI based implementation the "pdp-cid" setting would be ignored,
> and the connection setting would just go on only with the APN setting
> given. I'm assuming that having "carrier certified" QMI firmware
> configuration images would have something to do with how all this is
> organized internally, but not sure. Although, QMI also has APIs for
> profiles and these match the PDP context configurations seen with
> AT+CGDCONT, or not? I didn't play much with the QMI profiles myself,
> no idea.

I believe they match.  You should be able to use the "Profile Index"
TLVs of the "Start Network" request to force it.


Bjørn