6:28 p.m.
I have a problem with a modem and USB suspend where the OK from some AT commands are
sometimes lost. This will be corrected by the vendor, but it got me wondering how Ofono
handles problems like this. As I can see, there is no timeouts for AT commands that
doesn't respond? Or have I missed something? It seemed to me that Ofono got stuck in
the initial setup forever if this happens. In my experience you can't trust that a
modem will always respond and in that case it might be good to have a timeout and reset
the modem or something like that.
/Mattias
11:53 p.m.
Hi Mattias,
On 05/09/2018 03:28 AM, Mattias Månsson wrote:
I have a problem with a modem and USB suspend where the OK from some
AT
commands are sometimes lost. This will be corrected by the vendor, but
it got me wondering how Ofono handles problems like this. As I can see,
there is no timeouts for AT commands that doesn't respond? Or have I
missed something? It seemed to me that Ofono got stuck in the initial
This question comes up periodically. The answer is that GAtChat does
not have a built-in mechanism for AT command timeouts. There are
several reasons for this:
1. It is hard to pick a default timeout that will work in most cases.
Some commands can take a large amount of time (e.g. COPS operator discovery)
2. If a timeout does trigger, there's really no way to recover reliably.
While ITU v.250 does mention the possibility of command cancelation,
most firmware simply does not support this or only supports a subset of
commands where this can work. And even then the behavior can vary
wildly between implementations.
setup forever if this happens. In my experience you can't trust
that a
Yep
modem will always respond and in that case it might be good to have a
timeout and reset the modem or something like that.
There's nothing stopping you from implementing a heart-beat check or
similar logic inside the modem driver itself. However, the logic of
'what to do' in case the heart beat stops is quite modem model/firmware
specific. This has to be handled by each driver individually.
There's also the possibility that modem firmware itself has a built-in
heart-beat / crash detector. This is why ofono_modem_reset was
introduced and is/was used for modems that have been productized...
Regards,
-Denis
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