[PATCH 4/4] Add a MessageWaiting interface to track message waiting indications.

[Aki Niemi]

2009/8/12 Denis Kenzior <denkenz at gmail.com>:
>  So there are two issues here:
>        - There is absolutely no standard data format for such vendor commands.  So
> coming up with a higher level API that supports all modems might be tricky.

Agree, this might be a problem. And in the worst case, might force
drivers to do data format conversions anyway.

>        - This presents the issue of having many more code paths to debug inside the
> core and potentially many more plugin functions to implement.
>
> I'd like to keep the core as clean and small as possible.  What is your
> feeling for the level of bloat such higher level APIs will introduce in
> comparison to a giant if-else statement inside the driver itself?

At least with the current set of EF types, I think we can manage
faking it in the driver code.

Cheers,
Aki