E173s-1 stops working after weeks of uptime

[De Alti, Cristiano]

>Yes, definitely useful there if the platform has a way of actually
>killing power to the device, whether that's USB or GPIO or whatever.
>And I think it would be fine to add a method to the Modem object to do
>this.
>
>If there's a lot of variability in platforms (and I think there is :)
>we could theoretically have MM call out to a script to poke GPIOs or
>sysfs or run some other program.
>
>A start would be gathering the data on the different ways that
>platforms allow killing power to modems. TO start with, if it's USB and
>the hub reports per-port power control in wHubCharacteristic via lsusb
>-v then we might be able to power cycle.
>
>Dan

I think calling a script after giving up with the modem is a great idea.
We have platforms with power and reset control of the modem and I’d be able to test on real world hardware.
Please add this in your roadmap.

Ciao,
  Cristiano