[PATCH] comgt: Move to community packages repo

Lech Perczak lech.perczak at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 16:30:09 PDT 2021


W dniu 2021-06-29 o 01:07, Sergey Ryazanov pisze:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 11:57 PM Lech Perczak <lech.perczak at gmail.com> wrote:
>> W dniu 2021-06-28 o 21:55, Paul Spooren pisze:
>>> On 6/28/21 9:53 AM, John Crispin wrote:
>>>> On 28.06.21 21:14, Paul Spooren wrote:
>>>>> I'm in favor of this too but if it's a core feature (i.e. SIM card
>>>>> support) we should provide the package by default to, not?
>>>> this should be explained in the wiki,
>>> Agree, APU boards etc also need some extra packages to support SDcards
>>> and things. Let's do this.
>> OTOH, this differs a bit from such packages, by being needed to connect
>> to WAN on such devices. This is the same way as uqmi does on some -
>> removing it would require other Internet connection to bootstrap its
>> installation.
> Yep, removing the comgt package from the firmware sounds like an
> anecdote from the 90's: The modem driver is on CD, the CD-ROM driver
> on the Internet.
>
> OTOH, Arjun has been trying to draw attention to the patch for comgt
> for a year. And no one reacted to his quite reasonable fix.
>
My thoughts exactly.
Also, I realized that removing comgt would render the device requiring 
it unable to reestablish WAN connection also after sysupgrade - which is 
a no-brainer for me.
My custom builds carry a very similar patch for a few years now, and 
Arjun's patch looks very reasonable to me - maybe I shall test it in my 
builds very soon, and provide feedback, as I'd like to see it merged as 
well.

-- 
Kind regards,
Lech




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