Hey, The '06-api' branch has a new property (MM_PLUGIN_BASE_ALLOWED_SINGLE_AT) for MMPluginBase, which allows specifying that only one AT port is expected in the modem [1]. If this property is set, whenever the first AT port is grabbed, all the remaining port probings will cancel their AT-specific probing steps, which improves a lot the overall time needed to finish device probing. Of course, this property is only meaningful if the device exports multiple ports where only one of them is AT. For single-port devices (e.g. Cinterion) there is no improvement.
During my tests, I enabled the property for my Gobi 2000 and my Nokia C7 devices (which expose several ports, but end up grabbing only one AT port here), and it works pretty well. Now, the question is; should I enable this for every Gobi and Nokia device? Are there Gobi-based or Nokia devices with more than one AT port out there? Also, is there any other plugin which could benefit from this probing improvement? Cheers, [1] Plugins can now set either `MM_PLUGIN_BASE_ALLOWED_SINGLE_AT' or `MM_PLUGIN_BASE_ALLOWED_AT'; no need to set both. -- Aleksander _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
