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

[Bjørn Mork]

Aleksander Morgado <aleksander at aleksander.es> writes:

> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> 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.
>
> So, can we specify e.g. APN and "profile index" in the same Start
> Network request, and make the firmware reconfigure the given profile
> with the given APN? or is the "profile index" just a way to select
> which profile to start network with?

Don't know.  Probably the latter, similar to AT+CGACT


Bjørn