A 'GDBusObjectManagerClient' for a service for which there is no current
name-owner is a perfectly valid and useful object. For example, we could then
connect to the 'notify::name-owner' property to follow the life cycle of the
ModemManager process.
So, don't tie the successful creation of a 'MMManager' to the successful
creation of the internal GDBusProxy for the 'Manager1' interface. If there is
no current name owner, the GDBusProxy wouldn't be created, and instead we
would completely fail the 'MMManager' creation.
In order to have a proper conversion between DBus error names and GErrors for
our known domains, the associations need to be registered before any DBus
call attempt.
Given that the high-level API of libmm-glib has its entry point always in the
MMManager, just register them as soon as the first such object is created.
We do need to specify which is the primary port being used for controlling the
modem. This allows us to match the device with an already existing bluetooth
device in NetworkManager.
Specifying 'none' is really not exclusive. We may want to say that the modem can
either authenticate with a given protocol, or otherwise just try without
authentication.
The reality is that 'none' itself is usually always given in the connection
settings.
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
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.
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.
