GPRS support for Ofono

Bastian, Waldo waldo.bastian at intel.com
Wed Sep 2 10:51:33 PDT 2009


> > > I am still not seeing the point in what suspended will do for us and
> > > the UI. And that Maemo 5 exposed such a state in the UI is not an 
> > > argument to keep doing it. I asked this before, what are we suppose to 
> > > be doing when we get signaled suspended?
> >
> > User, as well as intelligent (connectivity-aware) applications, need to
> > know about this so that they understand why "Internet" is momentarily
> > broken. It's as simple as that.

+1

> > Oh we could also use the network device carrier flag, and then use
> > Netlink (and we probably should do that too), but we all know how 
> > horrible Netlink is from userland.
> 
> Using IFF_RUNNING and IFF_LOWER_UP sounds more reasonable then some
> suspended state.

IF_OPER_DORMANT seems a more accurate reflection of the state.

Cheers,
Waldo


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