The function only checked whether wimax was enabled (rfkill/user pref)
and whether wimaxd was running. Only nm-device.c calls this function
for WiMAX devices, and the only two uses of it were during activation
(which is already covered by nm-device-wimax.c's is_available() function)
and when the device enters the UNAVAILABLE state, where it is used
to check for missing firmware, which is implemented by the parent
class, not WiMAX.
These turn out to be pretty useless, since their functions are already
covered by each device's state-changed handler or can be done in other
places like deactivate().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702190
Rather than passing UDI, ifname, and driver name to the device
constructors as separate arguments, just pass the NMPlatformLink
instead and let it parse them out.
Virtual types still take UDI and ifname separately, since we create
fake NMDevices for them for autoactivating connections. That's weird
in other ways too though, so perhaps this should be revisted.
Merge the net-subsystem-monitoring functionality of NMUdevManager into
NMLinuxPlatform (and kill NMUdevManager). NMLinuxPlatform now only
emits link-added signals after udev processes the device, and uses
udev attributes to further identify the device. NMManager now
identifies devices solely based on the NMLinkType provided by the
platform.
This is really, really old 2007-era code. Any NMDevice that gets
created is already supported, so there's no reason to have every
device set NM_DEVICE_CAP_NM_SUPPORTED. For those subclasses that
only set that capability, we can remove the subclass method
entirely. Next, it turns out that the "type capabilities" code
wasn't used anywhere, so remove that too. Lastly, "cipsec"
interfaces haven't been used on linux in about 5 years (they
were created by the Cisco binary-only IPSec kernel module for
Cisco VPNs long before vpnc and openswan came around) so we can
remove that code too.
Change the way that nm-properties-changed-signal works, and parse the
dbus-binding-tool-generated info to get the exact list of properties
that it's expected to export.
This makes NM_PROPERTY_PARAM_NO_EXPORT unnecessary, and also fixes the
problem of properties like NMDevice:hw-address being exported on
classes where it shouldn't be.