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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 07:55:30 +0100 From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> To: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, fengguang.wu@...el.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1 v2] net: rmnet_data: Initial implementation Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:01:15PM CET, subashab@...eaurora.org wrote: >On 2017-03-13 02:54, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:43:09AM CET, subashab@...eaurora.org wrote: >> > RmNet Data driver provides a transport agnostic MAP (multiplexing and >> >> Why "data"? Why not just "rmnet"?? >> >> Btw, what is "RmNet". Google does not give me much. Is it some >> priprietady Qualcomm thing? Is there some standard behind it? >> > >Hi Jiri > >Rm interface is used to describe an application processor tethered to >Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. modems. Since these are netdevices, I believe that this code should be a part of that driver, not a generic code in net/ >the term RmNet is used. I don't think there are published standards >available for this but I can provide relevant information and >document it as well. > >rmnet was used for a USB based physical transport earlier, hence >this platform agnostic multiplexing driver was named as rmnet_data. ok, so?
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