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From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
To: ofono@ofono.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gprs: Use "internet" apn for auto-created context
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:43:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D8A6EB.90506@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D84681.6000706@jolla.com>

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Hi Slava,

A gentle reminder to please not top-post on this mailing list.

On 01/16/2014 02:52 PM, Slava Monich wrote:
> Hi Denis,
>
> Sorry to bother you, but I don't quite get the logic. There's something
> that needs to be done in case if ALL provisioning plugins have run and
> failed. How could that be a part of a provisioning plugin? They all have
> already run and failed by definition of the problem.

We do; we create an empty context to signify that provisioning has 
failed.  I do realize you mean well, but you're trying to wildly guess 
(at least that is how I read the commit description) and breaking 
existing behavior.

>
> And another thing. If context initialization belongs exclusively to the
> provisioning plugins then what is this add_context() call doing there?
> And why INTERNET context is created but, say, MMS is not? Isn't that a
> wild guess too? If so then I have found exactly the right place for
> another wild guess. Or am I missing something?

You are :)  The special context is not meant to be used, and is by 
design meant to always fail.

An empty APN is by definition invalid, so it is used as a 'special' flag 
value.  The 'special' empty APN context is used by various oFono UIs to 
start a user-guided provisioning process.  If you mess with this 
behavior, you will break those UIs.

Why only an internet context is created is largely historical.  This 
behavior probably predates MMS contexts.

>
> I don't want to waste your time as well as mine by submitting patches
> that get rejected but in order to do so I have to understand why patches
> get rejected.

Completely understandable.  Please feel free to start a conversation on 
the mailing list or the IRC channel whenever you feel you need more 
information.

Regards,
-Denis

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-17  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-16 14:43 [PATCH] gprs: Use "internet" apn for auto-created context Slava Monich
2014-01-16 17:04 ` Denis Kenzior
2014-01-16 20:52   ` Slava Monich
2014-01-17  3:43     ` Denis Kenzior [this message]
2014-01-19 10:25       ` Slava Monich
2014-01-20  3:12         ` Denis Kenzior

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