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.
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'
For bearers using STATIC or DHCP IP method, the modem itself is the one
negotiating authentication with the network. The new `allowed-auth' property
allows users to specify which authentication method(s) are allowed to be used.
See the following NetworkManager commit for more reference:
commit 34aef8aaaa09b7473b9496aa49e550bd2def03f8
Author: Andrew Bird <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk>
Date: Thu Mar 15 16:19:43 2012 -0500
It's pointless to have libmm-common around, just merge it into libmm-glib and
make ModemManager depend on libmm-glib directly. At the end, the non-common
stuff in libmm-glib is really minimal.
