Re: qmi-wwan & cdc-wdm & cdc-ether interaction for Novatel devices

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(sorry, forgot to send to linux-usb@..., adding now)

On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 13:25 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
> 
> The Novatel USB 551L and E362 actually have cdc-ether interfaces which
> speak QMI.  That's not really handled by our architecture at the moment.
> I can get the cdc-wdm0 port by adding the ID for the master cdc-ether
> interface (0x2, 0x6, 0x0) directly to the cdc-wdm driver, or by adding
> them to qmi_wwan and blacklisting cdc-ether so it doesn't load first and
> claim the interface.  Both of those options suck.  So what do we do
> here?
> 
> But given they are cdc-ether, *and* you can use AT commands to start a
> data session on the cdc-ether port without using QMI in any way, it
> seems like cdc-ether is probably the right driver to use for the net
> port.  However, they speak QMI on the net port interface with cdc-wdm
> too.
> 
> So, should we:
> 
> 1) test if they work with qmi_wwan and then blacklist them from
> cdc-ether?  Seems somewhat icky since now something that's actually
> cdc-ether is no longer driven by cdc-ether.
> 
> 2) figure out how to weld cdc-wdm into cdc-ether like we've done with
> qmi_wwan
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Dan


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