Removing CDMA/EVDO support?

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2025-04-21 at 09:50 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Now that the 1.24 release is out, perhaps that time has come to begin
> removing CDMA/EVDO/3GPP2 support for the next release.

Two points I should have made clear:

a) 1.24 will continue to support CDMA/EVDO for its lifetime

b) ModemManager tries extremely hard not to break API/ABI; so even if
we did this the D-Bus API and shared library/header API will remain
backwards compatible. Simply that modems would no longer expose
MM_MODEM_CAPABILITY_CDMA_EVDO and CDMA/EVDO-related API functions would
return errors.

Dan


> 
> I spent some time recently investigating how many active CDMA/EVDO
> networks still exist. Most usage appears to be with utilities/IoT
> networks. While many are in the process of evolving to LTE a number
> of
> CDMA-based networks still appear to be operational as of 2024.
> 
> https://450alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/450Alliance-annual-equipment-update-2024-P-rev.pdf
> 
> Anyone have thoughts on this? Is it too soon?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
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