Re: [MM] [PATCH 4/5] novatel: Poll for whether the connection still exists.

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

>     Given that the $NWQMISTATUS reply is not bearer-specific (reports
>     overall status of the modem), I was thinking in moving the periodic
>     connectivity check to MMIfaceModem instead, and plug it in using the
>     same logic as e.g. the signal quality check. In that way, other
>     implementations (e.g. Samsung) could benefit from the same generic
>     timeout handling logic. What do you think?
>
>
> Is it useful to other implementations? I consider the periodic
> connectivity check a hack to work around Novatel's fairly broken
> firmware and complete lack of unsolicited notifications. If other modems
> are also bad at this, that seems fine, but I'd like to resist
> generalizing features when there's really only one instance of the problem.

Oh, I thought your Samsung plugin also needed this; may have overlooked it.

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Aleksander