On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:01:17 +0100 Loic Poulain wrote: > MBIM has initially been specified by USB-IF for transporting data (IP) > between a modem and a host over USB. However some modern modems also > support MBIM over PCIe (via MHI). In the same way as QMAP(rmnet), it > allows to aggregate IP packets and to perform context multiplexing. > > This change adds minimal MBIM support to MHI, allowing to support MBIM > only modems. MBIM being based on USB NCM, it reuses some helpers from > the USB stack, but the cdc-mbim driver is too USB coupled to be reused. > > At some point it would be interesting to move on a factorized solution, > having a generic MBIM network lib or dedicated MBIM netlink virtual > interface support. > > This code has been highly inspired from the mhi_mbim downstream driver > (Carl Yin <carl....@quectel.com>). > > Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poul...@linaro.org>
Does the existing MBIM over USB NCM also show up as a netdev? Let's CC Dan and Bjorn on MBIM-related code, they may have opinions.
