Back in Linux < 3.6 days, the cdc-wdm ports exposed by the QMI driver
were flagged as owned by the 'usb' subsystem. That changed in 3.6 when
the subsystem was renamed to 'usbmisc':
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2012-June/msg00125.html
This patch removes all monitoring of the 'usb' subsystem completely,
which is anyway a valid subsystem but for which we shouldn't need any
special handling. Right now, with newer kernels, we were using that
monitoring exclusively to get notified of full USB device remove
events, which is really not required as we already process the port
removals one by one.
We simplify the logic everywhere that attempted to match either the
'usb' or 'usbmisc' subsystems, and we no longer require the explicit
checks for the port name being named 'cdc-wdm[0-9]*' in the code, as
that is already taken care of by the ID_MM_CANDIDATE udev tag rule.
The mm_base_modem_grab_port() now receives a MMKernelDevice directly from the
plugin, which is then stored in the MMPort corresponding to the port.
This means that we have direct access to e.g. all properties set by udev rules
everywhere, and we don't need additional GUdevClient objects (e.g. like the one
used in the Huawei plugin to detect NDISDUP support during runtime).
For virtual ports (e.g. generated during unit tests), we have a new 'generic'
kernel device object which just provides the values from the kernel device
properties given during its creation.
Instead of relying constantly on GUdevDevice objects reported by GUdev, we now
use a new generic object (MMKernelDevice) for which we provide an initial GUdev
based backend.
All ports of the same modem reported by the kernel will all be associated with
a common 'uid' (unique id), which uniquely identifies the physical device. This
logic was already in place, what we do now is avoid calling it the 'sysfs
path' of the physical device, because we may not want to use that to identify
a device.
This logic now also enables the possibility of "naming" the modems in a unique
way by setting the "ID_MM_PHYSDEV_UID" property in the "usb_device" that owns
all the ports.
E.g. a custom device has 4 modems in 4 different USB ports. The device path of
each USB device will always be the same, so the naming rules could go like this:
$ vim /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/78-mm-naming.rules
ACTION!="add|change|move", GOTO="mm_naming_rules_end"
DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.5/4-1.5.1", ENV{ID_MM_PHYSDEV_UID}="USB-MODEM-1"
DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.5/4-1.5.2", ENV{ID_MM_PHYSDEV_UID}="USB-MODEM-2"
DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.5/4-1.5.3", ENV{ID_MM_PHYSDEV_UID}="USB-MODEM-3"
DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.5/4-1.5.4", ENV{ID_MM_PHYSDEV_UID}="USB-MODEM-4"
LABEL="mm_naming_rules_end"
Each of the modems found will have a unique UID retrieved from the previous list
of rules. Then, "mmcli" has also been updated to allow using the UID instead of
the modem DBus path or index, e.g.:
$ sudo mmcli -m USB-MODEM-1
/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/0 (device id '988d83252c0598f670c2d69d5f41e077204a92fd')
-------------------------
Hardware | manufacturer: 'ZTE CORPORATION'
| model: 'MF637'
| revision: 'BD_W7P673A3F3V1.0.0B04'
| supported: 'gsm-umts'
| current: 'gsm-umts'
| equipment id: '356516027657837'
-------------------------
System | device: 'USB-MODEM-1'
| drivers: 'option'
| plugin: 'ZTE'
| primary port: 'ttyUSB5'
| ports: 'ttyUSB5 (at)'
...
$ sudo mmcli -m USB-MODEM-1 --enable
...
This patch makes declarations bind to definitions within the same module
to prevent the potential ambiguity if referenced directly.
AddressSanitizer think they violated one definition rule, although
those symbols are accessed by address through their modules and do
not depend on the order of the libararies loaded.
The PHS8 in QMI-mode doesn't support GPS location retrieval via QMI, so we will
fallback to use the AT-based setup and the TTY for reading NMEA traces.
The new PHS8 or PXS8 devices may expose multiple tty ports, but only one is
supposed to be used for PPP. So, query which port that is and flag it before
grabbing it in the modem.
Both the ModemManager daemon and the mmcli will now include `libmm-glib.h' only.
We also handle two new special `_LIBMM_INSIDE_MM' and `LIBMM_INSIDE_MMCLI'
symbols, which if included before the `libmm-glib.h' library allow us to:
* Don't include the libmm-glib high level API in the ModemManager daemon, as
the object names would clash with those in the core.
* Define some of the methods of helper objects to be included only if compiling
ModemManager daemon or the mmcli.
Different ports of the same modem may get handled by different drivers. We
therefore need to provide a list of drivers (new `Modem.Drivers' property with
signature 'as') instead of just one (removed `Modem.Driver' property with
signature 's').
$ sudo mmcli -m 0 | grep drivers
| drivers: 'qcserial, qmi_wwan'
There's no real point in maintaining a separate `MMPlugin' interface, as all the
plugins will inherit from `MMPluginBase', so just merge them and simplify
everything.
Before this, we only exported the modem to DBus when all ports were organized,
in order to make sure that we select as primary port the one we really want and
not the first AT port grabbed. Given that to get all the ports organized we also
needed to wait to get all the ports grabbed, we can now also defer the creation
of the modem object until all the ports get grabbed. This allows us to create
different types of objects based on the ports available (e.g. we can now create
QMI-supported modem objects if we see a QMI port around).
