Re: [PATCH 0/3] EF-SPN API to sim-atom

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

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Hi Denis,

> > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:22 +0200, Jukka Saunamaki wrote:
> >> Here is an asynchronous implementation of SIM Service Provider Name (EF-SPN) getter API.
> >> The trick is to delay setting sim ready until spn reading is finished.
> > 
> > Any comments about this? 
> > So, yes, it slightly delays SIM initialisation (usually SPN value should
> > come from disk cache), but then netreg can use it immediately when it
> > registers. 
> > Alternative is still to create an asyncronous API now that there is a
> > patch for safe SIM file reading.
> 
> So my main problem here is that you require the SPN a handful of times
> in the phone's lifetime, more likely once.  Yet you pay the cost of
> reading and delaying the initialization every time.  In my view this is
> not really acceptable.

does it really matter in the end? It gets read once and after that we
are caching it on disk anyway.

Regards

Marcel