Dan Williams
8935812da4
This is the real fix for 81d0fd148f.
Some devices don't interact well with the option driver or the usb-serial
layer; they don't respond to the USB data requests and thus data never
gets written to that port. When close(2) is called, that data is still
pending and so the tty layer waits 30 seconds before returning from
the close. This is the 'closing_wait' value, which unfortunately is
not able to be modified by ModemManager because most serial drivers
for 3G devices don't implement the .ioctl handler or its TCIOSSERIAL
option to change closing_wait.
This goes along with a kernel patch to various drivers to enable
the TIOCSSERIAL ioctl to modify closing_wait which will be posted
soon.
ModemManager. The problem ModemManager tries to solve is to provide a unified high level API for communicating with (mobile broadband) modems. While the basic commands are standardized, the more advanced operations (like signal quality monitoring while connected) varies a lot. Using. ModemManager is a system daemon and is not meant to be used directly from the command line. However, since it provides DBus API, it is possible to use 'dbus-send' command to control it from the terminal. There's an example program (tests/mm-test.py) that demonstrates the basic API usage. Implementation. ModemManager is a DBus system bus activated service (meaning it's started automatically when a request arrives). It is written in C. The devices are queried from HAL and automatically updated based on hardware events. There's a GInterface (MMModem) that defines the modem interface and any device specific implementation must implement it. There are two generic MMModem implementations to support the basic operations (one for GSM, one for CDMA,) which are common for all cards. 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 HAL UDI and to create custom MMModem 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's a fully working plugin in the plugins/ directory for Huawei cards that can be used as an example for writing new plugins. Writing new plugins is highly encouraged! API. The 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!