Am 15.03.2013 17:32, schrieb Marcel Holtmann:
Hi Jukka,
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 16:10 +0200, Jukka Rissanen wrote:
If the user activated tethering, then remember the status
and restart the tethering when connman starts.
This is much needed feature when we have a headless system.
There is a user problem here with someone enabling WiFi tethering and
restarting/rebooting the device. Tethering will now be enabled, and the
user is confused why WiFi isn't connecting. Shall we leave this
informational problem for the desktop UI only or do we want to do some
additional head scratching next week?
One option is to have main.conf option for this. By default the system
could work like now and if tethering autostart is needed, then it needs
to be activated in main.conf (or vice versa)
I think we should leave the current behavior as it is. It is a valid one. You
restart and you get back into a sane state. Thinks like the underlaying link
would have to restart as well. Think about 3G or Ethernet or anything else.
If you want a different behavior, then you have to make a clear case for it.
And it should be behind a main.conf option. However be really careful how many
of these we are including. Since normally only the default ones will be tested.
Regards
Marcel
Hi Marcel,
we use connman since 0.9 or 0.10 in OpenELEC a embedded Multimedia
Distribution which runs XBMC as a Mediacenter. Actually Tethering is a
much requested feature from our Users so we decided to add tethering
support in our next release.
We need persistent tethering support over reboots (optionally via
main.conf is great for us) because most of the OpenELEC devices are
connected via wired LAN. A user now can connect the phone or tablet to
such OpenELEC box via Wlan to control XBMC via a remote app or as a
bonus can use OpenELEC as a AP if there is no other AP in the near.
i hope it explains our use case, if you have questions let me know.
Thanks much
Stephan Raue
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