[Kde-hardware-devel] Review Request: Adds ModemManager support to solid

[Lamarque Vieira Souza]

Em Segunda-feira 14 Junho 2010, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
> On Sunday 13 June 2010 20:03:46 Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
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> > (Updated 2010-06-13 17:53:24.627879)
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> > 
> > Review request for Network Management and KNetworkManager.
> > 
> > Completed implementation of ModemManager specification, still needs (a
> > lot of) testing. Changed the last enum to camel name and renamed some
> > files to match file name scheme.
> 
> Very nice :)
> 
> I don't like the fact that this will essentially have to wait until 4.6 is
> out, due to the freeze in workspace/libs (which will go away once we fold
> the libsolidcontrol functionality into their specific users). That'd mean
> "no proper 3G support until early 2011.
> 
> Any ideas what we can do about this situation? Maybe ship the modemmanager
> stuff inside our network management code, instead of in kdebase?

	Honestly I think we better wait until 2011. That is a big patch, it is 
very likely it still has bugs, most of the code has not been tested too and 
several methods/signals only work with Modem Manager 0.4, which has not been 
released yet. Even the Gsm part is not well tested because my Sony MD300 modem 
does not support several things from the specification. By 2011 we can test 
the code with more modems and I can finish some implementation details still 
pending.

	I also want to create a new solid backend for Network Manager 0.8, the 
current solid backend implements 0.7 specification. Some usefull features are 
only available in 0.8 specification, so by 2011 we will be ready for MM 0.4 
and NM 0.8.

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