Re: ppp support naming

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson kde org>]

On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Bastien Nocera said:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:58 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > Does that mean that we need extra development to support HDSPA/UTMS
> > networks? Does "CDMA" in NetworkManager only literally support CDMA
> > networks?
>
> No, they're already supported. The CDMA and GSM bits in NetworkManager
> refer to the command sets used by the different technologies, not to the
> over-the-air technologies.

Then I misunderstood.

> > If that's the case, obviously the API naming is fine as is.  Otherwise we
> > should make it more generic.
>
> More generic for what? They have different command sets, so they use
> different implementations in NM.

I mean that when a class of cellular technologies are served by one 
NetworkManager component, the name of that component should be a generic 
name, not the name of one of a member of that class.

Will