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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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