netdev - Re: [RFC] wwan: add a new WWAN subsystem

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Message-ID: <983917b5637ce1d9948c94f638d857d37a2ab808.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:39:00 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>, m.chetan.kumar@...el.com,
        Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] wwan: add a new WWAN subsystem

On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 16:15 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> Looking at it bottom up, is the WWAN device itself made up of multiple
> devices? Are the TTYs separate drivers to the packet moving engines?

Possibly, yes, it depends a bit.

> They have there own USB end points, and could just be standard CDC
> ACM?

Yeah, for a lot of USB devices that's indeed the case.

> driver/base/component.c could be useful for bringing together these
> individual devices to form the whole WWAN device.

Huh, I was unaware of this, I'll take a look!

A very brief look suggests that it wants to have a driver for the whole
thing in the end, which isn't really true here, but perhaps we could
"make one up" and have that implement the userspace API. I need to take
a closer look, thanks for the pointer.

> Plus you need to avoid confusion by not adding another "component
> framework" which means something totally different to the existing
> component framework.

:)

johannes