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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:19:41 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc: "RĂ©mi Denis-Courmont"
<remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
ext Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB host CDC Phonet network interface driver
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:12:41 +0200
Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> wrote:
> Am Freitag, 24. Juli 2009 14:48:05 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > > No, I was thinking of having two full devices, a data channel and a
> > > control channel for devices that really talk AT commands natively.
> >
> > If the hardware does it great, however for things like a 3G modem you
> > have the problem that the PPP is over the AT command channel which may
> > itself be multiplexed. And the muxing in question is *ugly* - sort of
> > HDLC and LAP-B done wrong.
>
> Well, yes, but we would really like a separate control channel, so we
> can query parameters like signal strength, while we do PPP over the data
> channel.
Thats the notion of the AT mux stuff - you get multiple AT channels and
you can stuff PPP down one of them. It's still butt ugly.
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