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

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday 14 June 2010 15:57:36 Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
> Em Segunda-feira 14 Junho 2010, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
> > On Sunday 13 June 2010 20:03:46 Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
> > > http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3769/
> > > 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 understand your concerns, but having less people be able to use (and test) 
it, won't make the code better. In fact, having *more* people bang on it 
results in much quicker stabilization.

Your point that it might be buggy is of course valid, and we might want to 
refrain from shipping it as stable, but having 4.5 users be able to try it 
would surely be beneficial for us.

>         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.

Still, likely you don't want to be tied to KDE SC's release cycles with that 
:) (especially given that we've decided to fold back libsolid into its user 
apps anyway.)

Surely something to discuss during Akademy.
-- 
sebas

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