Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 2021 12:15:51 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND PATCH v18 0/3] userspace MHI client interface driver |
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On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 04:25:49PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:15:42PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 08:56:25PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 10:44:13AM -0800, Hemant Kumar wrote: > > > > This patch series adds support for UCI driver. UCI driver enables userspace > > > > clients to communicate to external MHI devices like modem. UCI driver probe > > > > creates standard character device file nodes for userspace clients to > > > > perform open, read, write, poll and release file operations. These file > > > > operations call MHI core layer APIs to perform data transfer using MHI bus > > > > to communicate with MHI device. > > > > > > > > This interface allows exposing modem control channel(s) such as QMI, MBIM, > > > > or AT commands to userspace which can be used to configure the modem using > > > > tools such as libqmi, ModemManager, minicom (for AT), etc over MHI. This is > > > > required as there are no kernel APIs to access modem control path for device > > > > configuration. Data path transporting the network payload (IP), however, is > > > > routed to the Linux network via the mhi-net driver. Currently driver supports > > > > QMI channel. libqmi is userspace MHI client which communicates to a QMI > > > > service using QMI channel. Please refer to > > > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libqmi/ for additional information > > > > on libqmi. > > > > > > > > Patch is tested using arm64 and x86 based platform. > > > > > > > > > > This series looks good to me and I'd like to merge it into mhi-next. You > > > shared your reviews on the previous revisions, so I'd like to get your > > > opinion first. > > > > If you get the networking people to give you an ack on this, it's fine > > with me. > > > > As discussed in previous iteration, this series is not belonging to networking > subsystem. The functionality provided by this series allows us to configure the > modem over MHI bus and the rest of the networking stuff happens over the > networking subsystem as usual.
Great, then it should be easy to get their acceptance :)
> This holds the same with USB and serial modems which we are having over decades > in mainline.
I don't see the connection here, sorry.
thanks,
greg k-h
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