| Index: drivers/net/usb/gobi/README
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| +Qualcomm Gobi 2000 driver
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| +
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| +This directory contains a driver for the Qualcomm Gobi 2000 CDMA/GSM modem. The
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| +device speaks a protocol called QMI with its host; this driver's responsibility
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| +is to multiplex transactions over QMI connections. Note that the relatively
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| +simple encoding defined in qmi.h and qmi.c is only the encapsulating protocol;
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| +the device speaks a more complex set of protocols embodied in the closed-source
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| +Gobi SDK which are necessary to use advanced features of the device.
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| +Furthermore, firmware (also proprietary) is needed to make the device useful. An
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| +open-source firmware loader exists: http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/gobi_loader/.
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| +
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| +Interfaces:
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| +This driver presents two separate interfaces to userspace:
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| +- usbN, an ordinary usb network interface
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| +- /dev/qcqmiN, a channel to speak to the device using QMI messages
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| +The latter is for use by the Gobi SDK.
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| +
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| +History:
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| +This driver's original incarnation (of which this is a rewrite) was released
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| +under GPLv2 by Qualcomm on their Code Aurora site:
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| +https://www.codeaurora.org/gitweb/quic/la/?p=kernel/msm.git;a=commit;h=b5135a880f8942f990e8c2e383f7f876beacc55b
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| +
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| +Issues:
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| +Help and commentary on any of the issues below would be appreciated.
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| +- The locking in devqmi_close() is not threadsafe: we're walking a list of tasks
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| + without holding a lock on the list. The original driver did this and I have
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| + left it intact because I do not fully understand what's going on here.
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| +- The driver seems to deadlock very occasionally (one in ~6000 reboots during
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| + stress testing). I've had no luck tracking this problem down.
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