From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1 v2] net: rmnet_data: Initial implementation Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 07:55:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20170314065530.GA1863@nanopsycho.orion> References: <1489390989-2408-1-git-send-email-subashab@codeaurora.org> <1489390989-2408-2-git-send-email-subashab@codeaurora.org> <20170313085420.GA1796@nanopsycho> <868aee1b58aa4365708966956decf6d3@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, fengguang.wu@intel.com To: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:36525 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750778AbdCNGzd (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2017 02:55:33 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f67.google.com with SMTP id v190so13213205wme.3 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 23:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <868aee1b58aa4365708966956decf6d3@codeaurora.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:01:15PM CET, subashab@codeaurora.org wrote: >On 2017-03-13 02:54, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:43:09AM CET, subashab@codeaurora.org wrote: >> > RmNet Data driver provides a transport agnostic MAP (multiplexing and >> >> Why "data"? Why not just "rmnet"?? >> >> Btw, what is "RmNet". Google does not give me much. Is it some >> priprietady Qualcomm thing? Is there some standard behind it? >> > >Hi Jiri > >Rm interface is used to describe an application processor tethered to >Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. modems. Since these are netdevices, I believe that this code should be a part of that driver, not a generic code in net/ >the term RmNet is used. I don't think there are published standards >available for this but I can provide relevant information and >document it as well. > >rmnet was used for a USB based physical transport earlier, hence >this platform agnostic multiplexing driver was named as rmnet_data. ok, so?