>> The '06-api' branch has a new property >> (MM_PLUGIN_BASE_ALLOWED_SINGLE_AT) for MMPluginBase, which allows >> specifying that only one AT port is expected in the modem [1]. If this >> property is set, whenever the first AT port is grabbed, all the >> remaining port probings will cancel their AT-specific probing steps, >> which improves a lot the overall time needed to finish device probing. >> Of course, this property is only meaningful if the device exports >> multiple ports where only one of them is AT. For single-port devices >> (e.g. Cinterion) there is no improvement. >> >> During my tests, I enabled the property for my Gobi 2000 and my Nokia C7 >> devices (which expose several ports, but end up grabbing only one AT >> port here), and it works pretty well. >> >> Now, the question is; should I enable this for every Gobi and Nokia >> device? Are there Gobi-based or Nokia devices with more than one AT port >> out there? > > At this point I don't think so. What I *don't* know is whether the > Nokia Internet Sticks (CS-1x) expose two AT ports or not. But at the > moment I'd guess most Nokia phones only expose one, and anything else > happens over PhoNet. >
Nokia is probably a good candidate then. >> Also, is there any other plugin which could benefit from this probing >> improvement? > > Most of the CDMA plugins *except* for Huawei; there are quite a few > Huawei CDMA devices that have two AT capable ports. So I think you can > add it to sierra-cdma, novatel-cdma, and the generic-cdma plugin, I > think. > :-( This is for 06-api, and there we don't know if the modem is CDMA until after probing, so cannot base this probing behaviour on that. -- Aleksander _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list