From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3872196942969489250==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Denis Kenzior Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Long dial string support (2nd) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:41:40 -0600 Message-ID: <4CEBFCD4.80204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: List-Id: To: ofono@ofono.org --===============3872196942969489250== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/22/2010 10:36 AM, Andras Domokos wrote: > Dial strings can now be as long as 120 digits (not counting '+'). This fe= ature > is going to be needed by the FDN feature. > = > An FDN may consist of a phone number plus a DTMF string. In order to have= the > call succeed when FDN is enabled, both parts need to be provided when mak= ing a > call, as a single dial string. So as mentioned previously, oFono does not support FDN. So why are we doing this again? > = > For AT modems the long dial string can be and has to be passed as is to t= he Most AT modems have serious limitations on how many characters are supported in the dial string. Not to mention that the pause character doesn't really always work. I can understand supporting long dialing numbers, but supporting dial strings is something else entirely... Regards, -Denis --===============3872196942969489250==--