Hi Robert I want to know the role of netd daemon in case of tethering? does this is added for support his feature or it has any more? I googled, but not getting much information about netd.
Thanks Gururaja B O On Nov 5, 12:04 am, Robert Greenwalt <[email protected]> wrote: > Tethering gets invoked when WifiService notices the softAP interface is > available. That interface only is created when the softAP driver is > started. So Wifi is on the hook to start up and configure the softAP. Once > that is done it tells the tethering service to tether that interface - the > tethering service works to create the proper upstream connection, starts up > dhcp and dns services if needed and does the iptables work to complete the > connection. > > R > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Thiru <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > I just want to know when the Tethering service will getting > > invoked for portable hotspot? > > > I just try to understand how the tethering service playing a role on > > portable hotspot. How the sendTetherStateChangedBroadcast() private function > > is getting invoked. I am seeing some registration with Network management. I > > guess the network management code will in turn communicate with kernel. If > > any changes on the interface on the network interface [like network > > interface registration with linux kernel] then kernel will raise the event. > > -Thiru -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
