Re: [PATCH v9 3/4] docs: Add documentation for userspace client interface

Jeffrey Hugo
2020-10-26T13:56:50Z

On 10/26/2020 7:46 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 07:38 -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
>> On 10/25/2020 3:46 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:17:54 -0700 Hemant Kumar wrote:
>>>> +UCI driver enables userspace clients to communicate to external
>>>> MHI devices
>>>> +like modem and WLAN. UCI driver probe creates standard character
>>>> device file
>>>> +nodes for userspace clients to perform open, read, write, poll
>>>> and release file
>>>> +operations.
>>>
>>> What's the user space that talks to this?
>>>
>>
>> Multiple.
>>
>> Each channel has a different purpose. There it is expected that a
>> different userspace application would be using it.
>>
>> Hemant implemented the loopback channel, which is a simple channel
>> that
>> just sends you back anything you send it. Typically this is consumed
>> by
>> a test application.
>>
>> Diag is a typical channel to be consumed by userspace. This is
>> consumed
>> by various applications that talk to the remote device for
>> diagnostic
>> information (logs and such).
>
> QMI too?
> Dan

Interesting question. My product doesn't use QMI. I would expect that
all QMI runs through Router these days, but I am seeing some QMI
channels in the downstream source.

Hemant, Do you know what is the usecase for the QMI0/QMI1 channels?

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