On 6/3/19 9:54 AM, Dan Williams wrote:

quoted

To be perfectly honest, at first I thought having IPA use rmnet
was a cargo cult thing like Dan suggested, because I didn't see

To be clear I only meant cargo-culting the naming, not any
functionality. Clearly IPA/rmnet/QMAP are pretty intimately connected
at this point. But this goes back to whether IPA needs a netdev itself
or whether you need an rmnet device created on top. If the former then
I'd say no cargo-culting, if the later then it's a moot point because
the device name will be rmnet%d anyway.

OK I thought you weren't sure why rmnet was a layer at all.  As I
said, I didn't have a very good understanding of why it was even
needed when I first started working on this.

I can't (or won't) comment right now on whether IPA needs its own
netdev for rmnet to use.  The IPA endpoints used for the modem
network interfaces are enabled when the netdev is opened and
disabled when closed.  Outside of that, TX and RX are pretty
much immediately passed through to the layer below or above.
IPA currently has no other net device operations.

					-Alex