On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Aleksander Morgado <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey! > > Following the discussion regarding Debian wanting to patch > ModemManager to avoid unnecessary probing of non-modem TTYs, I ended > up preparing a branch that implements a set of "filter policies" > composed of different "filter rules". > > See documentation for the filter rules here: > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/ModemManager/api/1.8.0/ref-overview-modem-filter.html > > And documentation for the filter policies here: > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/ModemManager/api/1.8.0/ch03s02.html > > By default ModemManager would use the "DEFAULT" filter policy, which > is equivalent to the logic we've been using in previous releases. But > these patches also allow stricter policies (e.g. the "STRICT" one) > that would not allow probing of non-modem TTYs (but may also not allow > probing of modem TTYs not covered by the default heuristics!). > > This is now implemented in the "device-filter-policies" branch in my > github repo: > https://github.com/aleksander0m/ModemManager/commits/device-filter-policies > > One quick test that you all may do would be to build ModemManager from > this branch and run it in STRICT mode, and see if your modems are > still completely probed and that non-modem TTYs aren't probed: > # /usr/sbin/ModemManager --filter-policy=STRICT --debug > > Comments? >
I've merged this to git master now; probably one of the biggest changes that will go to the next stable version! -- Aleksander https://aleksander.es _______________________________________________ ModemManager-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/modemmanager-devel
