Aleksander Morgado
87341acaa8
Remove the need to run `gtkdocize' when building from git; this should
be an operation done by the maintainer when modernizing the gtk-doc
setup (think of e.g. gettextize), no need to do it unconditionally.
This makes it easier for platforms without gtk-doc to build from git.
When trying to build with documentation enabled and gtk-doc isn't
found, we get some nice warnings and errors in the configure report:
checking for gtk-doc... no
configure: WARNING:
You will not be able to create source packages with 'make dist'
because gtk-doc >= 1.0 is not found.
checking for gtkdoc-check... no
checking for gtkdoc-check... no
checking for gtkdoc-rebase... no
checking for gtkdoc-mkpdf... no
checking whether to build gtk-doc documentation... yes
configure: error:
You must have gtk-doc >= 1.0 installed to build documentation for
ModemManager. Please install gtk-doc or disable building the
documentation by adding '--disable-gtk-doc' to './configure'.
Files generated with gtkdocize (gtk-doc) 1.25.1.
ModemManager. ModemManager provides a unified high level API for communicating with mobile broadband modems, regardless of the protocol used to communicate with the actual device (Generic AT, vendor-specific AT, QCDM, QMI, MBIM...). Using. ModemManager is a system daemon and is not meant to be used directly from the command line. However, since it provides a DBus API, it is possible to use 'dbus-send' commands or the new 'mmcli' command line interface to control it from the terminal. The devices are queried from udev and automatically updated based on hardware events, although a manual re-scan can also be requested to look for RS232 modems. Implementation. ModemManager is a DBus system bus activated service (meaning it's started automatically when a request arrives). It is written in C, using glib and gio. Several GInterfaces specify different features that the modems support, including the generic MMIfaceModem3gpp and MMIfaceModemCdma which provice basic operations for 3GPP (GSM, UMTS, LTE) or CDMA (CDMA1x, EV-DO) modems. If a given feature is not available in the modem, the specific interface will not be exported in DBus. Plugins. Plugins are loaded on startup, and must implement the MMPlugin interface. It consists of a couple of methods which tell the daemon whether the plugin supports a port and to create custom MMBroadbandModem implementations. It most likely makes sense to derive custom modem implementations from one of the generic classes and just add (or override) operations which are not standard. There are multiple fully working plugins in the plugins/ directory that can be used as an example for writing new plugins. Writing new plugins is highly encouraged! The plugin API is open for changes, so if you're writing a plugin and need to add or change some public method, feel free to suggest it! License. The ModemManager and mmcli binaries are both GPLv2+. The libmm-glib library is LGPLv2+.