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.
Plain non-Icera ZTE modems will use ATD calls and PPP to establish the
connection, so ignore 'net' ports that may be found in the way (e.g. when the
modem is a QMI modem and we're not using QMI support).
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.
This is the port to git master of the following commit:
commit d2654a287c309346cc46b535dd974b0a5fc06fd4
Author: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Aug 28 12:15:30 2012 -0500
zte: handle Icera-based devics that use DHCP
Since we can't autodetect that the devices use DHCP, we'll need to
tag them with udev rules for the time being.
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'
