The vendor id/string based rules should already be enough to get the
telit plugin bind telit devices.
This simplifies support for future Telit devices, as we wouldn't need
any additional change in the plugin. It also helps when working with
RS232 devices as the user wouldn't need to add the explicit tag to get
the devices bound to this plugin.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100373
There are 2 main types of udev properties: device-specific and
port-specific.
The port-specific properties are set independently per port (e.g. port
type hints set per interface number for a given vid:pid).
The device-specific properties apply to all ports in the device. Some
of these properties are currently expected in the physical device
(e.g. ID_MM_PLATFORM_DRIVER_PROBE) while some others are expected in
each port (e.g. the plugin udev tag filters).
This patch tries to simplify the logic and just assume that the device
specific tags may be given in either the physical device or the port
device, by providing separate APIs to retrieve port-specific or
device-specific (global) properties. If the same tag is given in both
the device and the port, the one in the device takes preference.
For the generic backend, these new APIs are really useless, as all
device-specific and port-specific properties are always stored in the
port object themselves (there is no 'tree' of devices in the generic
backend, no 'physdev' device).
For the udev backend, though, there really is a difference, as the
tags may be set in port or device.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100156
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.
Initialized "cgmi_retries" variable from CustomInitContext with the
same value as the other retries, moreover the context is now allocated
with g_slice_new0.
Before this changes, when cgmi_retries assumed big values during the
probing of no AT-capable ports, the command AT+CGMI (mm-plugin-dell.c:custom_init_step)
was sent a semi-infinite number of times, blocking the plugin's initialization.
For Dell-branded Novatel, Sierra and Ericsson modems.
The Novatel plugin will no longer accept every Dell-branded modem, which was
the current situation. Instead, a new Dell plugin will take care of probing for
the correct vendor string, and based on the results create a specific Novatel,
Sierra or Ericsson modem.
In order to properly support this, the Novatel, Sierra and MBM plugins now
export their implementations into non-inst libraries that the Dell plugin will
import.
Also, for now, the Dell plugin doesn't make any difference between e.g. Sierra
or Ericsson MBIM implementations, just a generic MBIM modem is created in both
cases, as that is anyway what the Ericsson MBM and Sierra plugins do already.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86713