These days more and more devices are showing up that support a
number of different access technology families in the same hardware,
like Qualcomm Gobi (CDMA and GSM), Pantech UM190 (CDMA and GSM),
Pantech UML290 (CDMA and LTE), LG VL600 (CDMA and LTE), Sierra
320U (GSM and LTE), etc. The previous scheme of having device
classes based on access technology family simply cannot handle
this hardware and attempting to add LTE to both the CDMA and GSM
device classes would result in a bunch of code duplication that
we don't want. There's a better way...
Instead, combine both CDMA and GSM device classes into a generic
"Modem" device class that provides capabilities indicating what
access technology families a modem supports, and what families
it supports immediately without a firmware reload. (Gobi devices
for example require a firmware reload before they can switch
between GSM and CDMA). This provides the necessary flexibility
to the client and allows us to keep the API stable when the
same consolidation change is made in ModemManager.
The current code doesn't yet allow multi-mode operation internally,
but the API is now what we want it to be and won't need to be
changed.
Will be used for things like activating a VPN connection before
signaling that the device is activated, or maybe for bridges and
bonds, to ensure that applications don't think the system has
connectivity before everything is set up.
DISCONNECTING: the only active network connection is now being disconnected
LOCAL, SITE, GLOBAL: one-stop items for level of connectivity, which
we'll use to show when we think we're actually connected to the internet
or behind a captive portal or something
We'll use IP_CHECK for detecting whether we're behind a captive
portal or on a network that does not have access to the Internet.
We'll probably run some variety of plugins during this stage to
help detect this, and possibly handle it for us (auto-login to
captive portal for example).
DEACTIVATING will be used for tearing down network shares or
cleanly closing network sessions when we're able to clean up
an activation. ie, "pre-down" for Debian.
Make things enums, and explicitly enumerate the device types so we
don't have the same API breakage again as we did with the auto-merge
of the wimax code.
Heavily modify Inaky's Intel WiMAX SDK glue (originally from connman)
to be more generic and more thread-safe, and suitable for use with
NetworkManager instead of rolling our own client code. Rewrite the
NMDeviceWimax code to mostly work.
Still to be done: actual connection logic, DHCP handling, spawning
wimaxd if it's not started yet
Just for consistency, make settings related stuff live under the
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager namespace, rather than its own
org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings namespace. Renames are done for
DBus interface names, DBus object paths, and polkit actions.
Remove the org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings bus name and
have everybody talk to org.freedesktop.NetworkManager. Now that we have
a single settings service that's embedded in the main daemon, we don't
need separate names anymore.
Much as with nm-remote-settings and nm-remote-settings-system, the
removal of user settings services means there is no more need for
separate interfaces for user and system settings services.
In libnm-glib, this commit merges everything in
nm-settings-system-interface into nm-settings-interface. Alongside with
that, we merge everything in the
org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.System DBus interface into
org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.
Remove code related to "connection scope" and such. Later, we will also
do lots of code flattening and simplification that's possible now that
user settings are gone.
Instead of doing this in every device subclass, do it in the NMDevice
superclass. nm_device_can_activate() already did the same logic that
each of the subclass device_state_changed() handlers were doing to
figure out whether they could do the transition from unavailable
to disconnected, so just use that in NMDevice and kill lots of code.
Mark activation requests that contain connections to be assumed,
and use that to short-circuit various parts of the activation
process by not touching various device attributes, since they
are already set up. Also ensure the device is not deactivated
when it initially becomes managed, because that would kill the
connection we are about to assume.
