This plugin implements support for old Qualcomm SoCs like the MSM8916
or the MSM8974, where:
* control ports are available via RPMSG channels exported as devices
e.g. with rpmsgexport:
https://github.com/andersson/rpmsgexport
* network ports are exposed by the bam-dmux kernel driver:
https://github.com/msm8916-mainline/linux/commits/bam-dmux
Adding support for newer Qualcomm SoCs (e.g. QRTR+IPA) could be done
in a similar way on this very same plugin.
This plugin is the first and only one that implements support for a
modem device that is "built in" the system, as opposed to external
modems that may be available via USB or PCI.
The ID_MM_PHYSDEV_UID based udev tags provided by the plugin provide
the logic to bind all the SoC ports together in the same modem object,
and therefore ID_MM_PHYSDEV_UID should not be used by users to
override the ones set by the plugin.
All "rpmsg[0-9]*" ports that are considered part of the modem are
flagged as candidate, ignoring the parent "rpmsg_ctrl[0-9]*" ports on
purpose. This setup therefore assumes that the channels have been
exported already as devices (e.g. using rpmsgexport).
libqmi 1.27.2 is required to support the "WDS Bind Data Port" message.
If none of the plugins enabled in the build has custom udev rules, the
common_test() method would be unused. Avoid this just by adding a new
dummy test which is always available in the udev rules tester.
g_type_init() has been deprecated (and also marked with the attribute
'deprecated') since glib 2.36 as the type system is automatically
initialized. Since the minimum version of glib required by ModemManager
is 2.36, calling g_type_init() isn't necessarily in the ModemManager
code.
Instead of relying on the udev daemon and GUDev to manage the devices reported
by the kernel, we can now run ModemManager relying solely on the kernel events
reported via the new ReportKernelEvent() API. Therefore, the '--no-auto-scan'
option is implicit for the ModemManager daemon when udev is disabled in the
build.
Additionally, a new custom implementation of the kernel device object is
provided, which uses sysfs to load the properties and attributes required in
each kernel device, instead of using a GUdevDevice.
The udev rule files are kept in place, and a simple custom parser is provided
which preloads all rules in memory once and then applies them to the different
kernel objects reported via ReportKernelEvent(), e.g. to set port type hints.
A simple unit test setup is prepared to validate the udev rules during the
`check' Makefile target.
