On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Aleksander Morgado
<aleksan...@lanedo.com>wrote:
>
> Given that the $NWQMISTATUS reply is not bearer-specific (reports
>> overall status of the modem), I was thinking in moving the periodic
>> connectivity check to MMIfaceModem instead, and plug it in using the
>> same logic as e.g. the signal quality check. In that way, other
>> implementations (e.g. Samsung) could benefit from the same generic
>> timeout handling logic. What do you think?
>>
>>
>> Is it useful to other implementations? I consider the periodic
>> connectivity check a hack to work around Novatel's fairly broken
>> firmware and complete lack of unsolicited notifications. If other modems
>> are also bad at this, that seems fine, but I'd like to resist
>> generalizing features when there's really only one instance of the
>> problem.
>>
>>
> Oh, I thought your Samsung plugin also needed this; may have overlooked it.
My Samsung plugin also notifies the core about disconnection events, which
may be what you are remembering. In that case it's in response to an
unsolicited message, though; it doesn't have to poll.
- Nathan
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