Re: [PATCH v9 3/4] docs: Add documentation for userspace client interface

[Jeffrey Hugo]

On 10/26/2020 7:46 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 07:38 -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> > On 10/25/2020 3:46 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:17:54 -0700 Hemant Kumar wrote:
> > > > +UCI driver enables userspace clients to communicate to external
> > > > MHI devices
> > > > +like modem and WLAN. UCI driver probe creates standard character
> > > > device file
> > > > +nodes for userspace clients to perform open, read, write, poll
> > > > and release file
> > > > +operations.
> > >
> > > What's the user space that talks to this?
> >
> > Multiple.
> >
> > Each channel has a different purpose.  There it is expected that a
> > different userspace application would be using it.
> >
> > Hemant implemented the loopback channel, which is a simple channel
> > that
> > just sends you back anything you send it.  Typically this is consumed
> > by
> > a test application.
> >
> > Diag is a typical channel to be consumed by userspace.  This is
> > consumed
> > by various applications that talk to the remote device for
> > diagnostic
> > information (logs and such).
>
> QMI too?
> Dan

Interesting question.  My product doesn't use QMI.  I would expect that 
all QMI runs through Router these days, but I am seeing some QMI 
channels in the downstream source.

Hemant, Do you know what is the usecase for the QMI0/QMI1 channels?

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