Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:47:41 -0600 | From | Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/17] net: introduce Qualcomm IPA driver |
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>> There is a n:1 relationship between rmnet and IPA. >> rmnet does the de-muxing to multiple netdevs based on the mux id >> in the MAP header for RX packets and vice versa. > > Oh, so you mean that even though IPA supports multiple channels > and multiple netdev instances for a physical device, all the > rmnet devices end up being thrown into a single channel in IPA? > > What are the other channels for in IPA? I understand that there > is one channel for commands that is separate, while the others > are for network devices, but that seems to make no sense if > we only use a single channel for rmnet data. >
AFAIK, the other channels are for use cases like tethering. There is only a single channel which is used for RX data which is then de-muxed using rmnet.
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