Re: PATCH: Enable udev-based autodetection of calypso modem on Freerunner

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

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Hi Denis,

> >>> We could document this as Freerunner specific notes to point people into
> >>> the right direction. And we should maybe to the same for IFX since that
> >>> is currently only documented in the GIT commit logs.
> >>
> >> Documentation inside the individual modem driver is the way to go.  And
> >> IFX isn't even documented in git commit logs.  I looked ;)
> > 
> > commit 3443a7a177fbaca24c84658968aff0a55db8a51d
> > Author: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
> > Date:   Sat Sep 18 22:08:41 2010 +0900
> > 
> >     udev: Add support for IFX device detection
> >     
> >     The IFX device detection is pretty static, but instead of using
> >     a static configuration file it is important to know when the device
> >     node is actually present. For this udev is perfect. Adding a simple
> >     udev rule is all that it takes:
> >     
> >     KERNEL=="ttyIFX[0-9]*", ENV{OFONO_DRIVER}="ifx"
> >     
> >     With this rule for every TTY with the kernel name like ttyIFX0, a new
> >     modem will be added and the IFX modem plugin driver requested for it.
> > 
> > this is not enough?
> 
> Then I didn't look far back enough (or I'm simply blind).  But I still
> prefer this to be inside the driver or HACKING.calypso for easier access.

I am with you that this needs to be documented better than GIT commit
logs.

However I do prefer doc/calypso-modem.txt and doc/ifx-modem.txt though
since I don't wanna clutter the root directory.

Regards

Marcel