Re: Palm Pre modem plugin

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

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Hi Niko,

>As of that I'm able to imagine only few reasons to use ofono instead of fso.

Then either you're not thinking hard enough or do not have enough domain 
experience to really comment.  One example: carrier certification. Please 
examine what oFono APIs cover and what FSO GSM APIs cover.  Hint, to pass GCF 
certification you will require quite a bit of what oFono provides (or figures 
out for you) and FSO is currently missing.

>The forth and worring is that a developer may be forced to use
>ofono, as the target device has some closed parts necessary for the os
>that does not work anymore if you remove ofono and use FSO.

Please do not post these crazy conspiracy theories here.  oFono is GPLed for 
exactly this reason.

> So, instead of discuss oFono vs FSO, I'd like to know what is the long
> time strategy and how to address these issues, and of course if I
> missed some important points.

FSO vs oFono is not a fair comparison anyway.    Please keep in mind that 
oFono is focused _only_ on being a telephony stack that is generic and 
applicable to all types of devices.  We started oFono to enable telephony 
applications on Laptops, Netbooks, MIDs, In-Vehicle Infotainment and many 
other types of devices.  These system types are different enough that different 
approaches to resource management, PIM, etc might be required.  Not every 
device type will have or even needs a fully-featured GSM modem.

For this reason oFono does not distinguish between smartphone vs non-
smartphone use cases.  Case in point: oFono already supports data-only GPRS 
devices, Bluetooth Handsfree profile devices, and of course proper modems (AT 
command and binary-protocol.)  

The other long-term goal is to integrate oFono with other system-level daemons 
such as BlueZ, NTPD, ConnMan, NetworkManager Gypsy, etc.  This will allow us 
to e.g. expose GPS data from the modem; enable Bluetooth telephony profiles 
like DUN, HFP AG; and expose 3G data connections for management by real 
connection managers.  We already have integration plugin infrastructure for 
feeding call history, sms history information to a PIM database of your 
choice, as well as export your phone's phonebooks to VCard format.

So, as you see, oFono allows you to integrate it into any type of system.  You 
can even make it coexist with FSO daemons (with the exception of the gsm one 
of course) if these satisfy your particular requirements.

Regards,
-Denis