Re: [PATCH] Add Qualcomm Gobi 2000/3000 driver.

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:20:57PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 04:12:34PM -0400, Elly Jones wrote:
> > > > +#define IOCTL_QMI_GET_SERVICE_FILE      (0x8BE0 + 1)
> > > > +#define IOCTL_QMI_GET_DEVICE_VIDPID     (0x8BE0 + 2)
> > > > +#define IOCTL_QMI_GET_DEVICE_MEID       (0x8BE0 + 3)
> > > > +#define IOCTL_QMI_CLOSE                 (0x8BE0 + 4)
> > > > +#define CDC_GET_ENCAPSULATED_RESPONSE	0x01A1ll
> > > > +#define CDC_CONNECTION_SPEED_CHANGE	0x08000000002AA1ll
> > > 
> > > We have IOR/IOW/etc macros for building ioctl numbers and it should be
> > > using those. To start with that helps enormously for trace tools as it
> > > shows the directions and sizes in the ioctl code.
> > 
> > These ioctl numbers have to stay the same in order to remain compatible with a
> > closed userspace SDK that we can't change.
> 
> Why can't we change them?  We have contacts in qualcomm and they should
> work to support modemmanager properly for this device.

I don't think they've made any attempts to do same, and I see no mention of it
on their code aurora website. If you know someone to contact about this, I would
be very interested to get in touch with them.

> All of the above looks like things we don't want in the in-kernel driver
> anyway, right?

I agree that all of the muxing stuff belongs entirely in userspace. It is
currently in kernelspace to support the closed userspace libraries.

> There's no requirement to support the closed userspace tool here, is
> there?  If so, who is making that requirement?

There is no requirement, but Google (and presumably others) are using it, and
breaking compatibility with it by changing the ioctl numbering seems like poor
form. That said, it would be nice if valgrind and similar could interpret these
ioctls.

How would you feel about accepting both the current set of arbitrary values and
a set of new ioctls generated with the IOR/IOW macros? That would preserve
backwards compatibility until Google and others can move to an open set of
userspace libraries.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

-- elly
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