From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5078093871447630592==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Denis Kenzior Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add radio access atom and driver API Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:02:31 -0600 Message-ID: <201002022202.31945.denkenz@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <97D5E1BB8FC13D4EA3B34BAE8E6898C9BAD63EF8@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> List-Id: To: ofono@ofono.org --===============5078093871447630592== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Waldo, > > > This atom provides access to the modem's radio access properties. It > > > currently includes a single rw property, namely the radio access > > > selection mode setting. > > > > It might be helpful to include the API documentation too. One thing I > > don't like is the name RadioAccess. The connotation is a bit too > > low-level. Perhaps BandSelection? RadioBandSelection? > = > Radio access is a pretty broad high level concept. It's one of those black > boxes you draw somewhere near the bottom of a phone architecture diagram, > so in that sense it is low-level but that comes with the territory. > BandSelection in my mind implies frequency band selection, which is a > narrow aspect of radio access. The 2G/3G selection covered with this pat= ch > is about radio access _technology_, which is distinct from the actual > frequency bands used by those technologies. I think RadioAccess is a > fairly good name for an interface that has the potential to cover various > radio related settings. People on this list keep forgetting two things: 1. We're not designing a kitchen sink API here. Most of the 'radio related = settings' will simply never be exposed, nobody really cares what UMTS chann= el = he/she is currently on. 2. We're designing the API to be easy to use for everyone, not just GSM gee= ks. In your AM/FM Tuner the 'Band' button switches between AM and FM. You = immediately know what the button does. The interface name in oFono should = ideally give the user an immediate idea of what it is for. In my view = "RadioAccess" does not fit this ideal. Perhaps "BandSelection" is the wron= g = name too, lets come up with a better one. Regards, -Denis --===============5078093871447630592==--