Re: [PATCH] mbpi: Parse gsm provider name

[Slava Monich <slava.monich@jolla.com>]

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Hi Denis,

> Hi Slava,
>
>> Operators share mcc/mnc meaning that automatically finding the best AP
>> (the one most likely to work) from the database may involve some sort of
>> fuzzy logic (partial or case-insensitive name comparison or something
>> like this) implemented in a product-specific provisioning plugin. Making
>> things work out-the-box translates into fewer customer complaints,
>> better user experience and is generally the right thing to do.
>>
>> I was trying to share a piece of code that doesn't involve any
>> product-specific logic and yet might be useful to others.
>>
>> Please let me know if I should give it another try, otherwise I won't
>> waste anyone's time and this code will just remain in our branch of ofono.
> So you're trying to parse and return provider name information from mbpi
> and return it back to the caller.  Then the caller will try to
> 'fuzzy-logic' and match it against the SPN.  Right?  Why not make things
> easy on yourself and fix the database for the operators you need?  But I
> digress.
>
> Feel free to try.  If you can do this cleanly, then I have no problem
> with it in principle.


Even if the operator database was 100% accurate (which is practically 
impossible) something would still have to be done about the operators 
sharing MCC/MNC and yet using different AP settings.

I'll give it another try.

Thanks,
-Slava