Re: PATCH: Enable udev-based autodetection of calypso modem on Freerunner

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

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Hi Marcel,

On 12/21/2010 01:05 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Denis,
> 
>>> We could document this as Freerunner specific notes to point people into
>>> the right direction. And we should maybe to the same for IFX since that
>>> is currently only documented in the GIT commit logs.
>>
>> Documentation inside the individual modem driver is the way to go.  And
>> IFX isn't even documented in git commit logs.  I looked ;)
> 
> commit 3443a7a177fbaca24c84658968aff0a55db8a51d
> Author: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
> Date:   Sat Sep 18 22:08:41 2010 +0900
> 
>     udev: Add support for IFX device detection
>     
>     The IFX device detection is pretty static, but instead of using
>     a static configuration file it is important to know when the device
>     node is actually present. For this udev is perfect. Adding a simple
>     udev rule is all that it takes:
>     
>     KERNEL=="ttyIFX[0-9]*", ENV{OFONO_DRIVER}="ifx"
>     
>     With this rule for every TTY with the kernel name like ttyIFX0, a new
>     modem will be added and the IFX modem plugin driver requested for it.
> 
> this is not enough?

Then I didn't look far back enough (or I'm simply blind).  But I still
prefer this to be inside the driver or HACKING.calypso for easier access.

Regards,
-Denis