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
...
Not making them '--location-enable|disable-signal' because that's the pattern
used to enable/disable location sources. Instead, use the '--location-set-*'
pattern, as that is what we're already using for the other location setup
update.
The default setup uses a refresh time of 30s, which means that even if the GPS
location updates are received at a higher frequency, the DBus interface will
still expose at most one update every 30s.
This patch includes a new "SetGpsRefreshTime()" method in the Location
interface, which takes a single 'u' parameter, specifying the refresh rate to
use, in seconds. This method also allows 0 being passed, which will make the
implementation to publish the GPS location updates are soon as ModemManager
detects them.
Along with the new method, a "GpsRefreshTime" read-only property is exposed
to specify the refresh time in effect.
The new method and property will only be applicable if the device has GPS
capabilities.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89924
mmcli is GPLv2+; that's what --version has always said and that's what the
README in ModemManager sources specifies:
License.
The ModemManager and mmcli binaries are both GPLv2+.
The libmm-glib library is LGPLv2+.
Standard GPS setup (raw/nmea) will both enable the GPS module and take full
control of the GPS port. This prevents other processes from reading the NMEA
traces from e.g. a tty. In order to handle this, a new 'unmanaged' GPS location
source is introduced, which will just enable/disable the GPS module, without
reading anything from the GPS port. Of course, both raw/nmea and unmanaged
setups cannot be enabled at the same time.
The logic to decide whether a property is valid in a given PDU type is kind of
fuzzy for 3GPP2 as it is currently implemented; so just print whatever we have
in the interface.
Along with a new '--cdma-activate-manual-with-prl'.
These can be used to request CDMA Manual Activation, like:
$> sudo mmcli \
-m 0 \
--cdma-activate-manual="spc=123456,sid=ab,mdn=0123456789abcde,min=0123456789abcde"
Or:
$> sudo mmcli \
-m 0 \
--cdma-activate-manual="spc=123456,sid=ab,mdn=0123456789abcde,min=0123456789abcde" \
--cdma-activate-manual-with-prl=/path/to/my/prl.data
We will expose a new 'Ports' property listing all ports currently known by a
given modem. Ports which are not used but are detected as being part of the
modem will be listed with an 'unknown' port type.
This change uses the new 'MMModemPortType' enum and the new 'MMModemPortInfo'
helper struct to handle these values in libmm-glib. The already available
'MMPortType' enum hasn't been re-used for the interface because it contains
values that we don't need (e.g. IGNORED).
The port list is now also included in the modem information command of mmcli:
$ sudo mmcli -m 0
/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/0 (device id '97b7b99e3e2bea103880545b619fb05a3cc81b26')
-------------------------
System | device: '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.4'
| drivers: 'qcserial, qmi_wwan'
| plugin: 'Gobi'
| primary port: 'cdc-wdm0'
| ports: 'ttyUSB0 (qcdm), ttyUSB1 (at), cdc-wdm0 (qmi), wwp0s29u1u4 (net)'
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702678
And also make it a list of masks, specifying which are the specific combinations
supported, not just one mask with all.
E.g.:
-------------------------
Hardware | manufacturer: 'Sierra Wireless, Incorporated'
| model: 'MC7710'
| revision: 'SWI9200X_03.05.19.04ap r5475 carmd-en-10527 2012/09/17 17:57:14'
| supported: 'gsm-umts
| gsm-umts, lte'
| current: 'gsm-umts, lte'
| equipment id: '358178040668164'
We now have a single 'CurrentModes' property which contains both values in a
tuple with signature "(uu)".
Also, rename 'SetAllowedModes()' to 'SetCurrentModes()', and update the list of
arguments expected to have a single "(uu)" tuple.