Aleksander Morgado 03fce4775e kerneldevice,generic: input pattern to string match is not regex
The input pattern given to the string_match() method is not a regex
pattern and we cannot use it as that, because all the special
characters (e.g. '.') would not be treated correctly.

Also, the prefix matching with the wildcard at the end of the string
needs to be converted to a proper regex wildcard, i.e. '.*'.

This logic also adds support for suffix matching, with a wildcard at
the beginning of the string, e.g. as the ones used for the wwan kernel
device name matching rules (i.e. '*MBIM').

Unit tests are added to cover all cases, most of these tests were
failing without the fixes implemented here.
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ModemManager.
ModemManager provides a unified high level API for communicating with mobile
broadband modems, regardless of the protocol used to communicate with the
actual device (Generic AT, vendor-specific AT, QCDM, QMI, MBIM...).

Using.
ModemManager is a system daemon and is not meant to be used directly from
the command line. However, since it provides a DBus API, it is possible to use
'dbus-send' commands or the new 'mmcli' command line interface to control it
from the terminal. The devices are queried from udev and automatically updated
based on hardware events, although a manual re-scan can also be requested to
look for RS232 modems.

Implementation.
ModemManager is a DBus system bus activated service (meaning it's started
automatically when a request arrives). It is written in C, using glib and gio.
Several GInterfaces specify different features that the modems support,
including the generic MMIfaceModem3gpp and MMIfaceModemCdma which provide basic
operations for 3GPP (GSM, UMTS, LTE) or CDMA (CDMA1x, EV-DO) modems. If a given
feature is not available in the modem, the specific interface will not be
exported in DBus.

Plugins.
Plugins are loaded on startup, and must implement the MMPlugin interface. It
consists of a couple of methods which tell the daemon whether the plugin
supports a port and to create custom MMBroadbandModem implementations. It most
likely makes sense to derive custom modem implementations from one of the
generic classes and just add (or override) operations which are not standard.
There are multiple fully working plugins in the plugins/ directory that can be
used as an example for writing new plugins. Writing new plugins is highly
encouraged! The plugin API is open for changes, so if you're writing a plugin
and need to add or change some public method, feel free to suggest it!

License.
The ModemManager and mmcli binaries are both GPLv2+.
The libmm-glib library is LGPLv2+.

Code of Conduct.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct.
By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms, which you can
find in the following link:
  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct
CoC issues may be raised to the project maintainers at the following address:
  modemmanager-devel-owner@lists.freedesktop.org
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