Hooks in Base Code

Jim McDonald Jim at devzero.net
Thu Jul 19 00:21:49 CEST 2007


Daniel Robinson wrote:
> I don't know how much of the at signaling is available at the data
> terminal.  What is the signaling for sending caller ID to a cellular
> phone?  For example, on POTS, the digits are signaled with a Bell 103
> modem between the first and second ring. 
>
> Someone said something about having the ringback tone be a sound file
> that is configurable according to caller.  I don't know if that is
> possible from the phone.  The ring back tone is generated by switching
> equipment, not the terminal.
To clarify, I'm thinking not of getting in the way of the basics of
things like gsmd, which should handle the fact that there is an incoming
call and also pick up the caller ID if present, but what openmoko does
as a result of this information.  Given the fact that there is an
incoming call from number 555-123-4567 what should the 'phone do? 
Should it silently ignore the call, send it straight to voicemail
(either operator or on the 'phone itself), use a specific ringtone for
the user, even shut down entirely (some sort of "if I ring my 'phone
from this number then nuke it" option!).  The point is, there are lots
of possibilities and we don't want them all sitting inside gsmd, it
makes more sense for them to be external modules that can be chained
together in a clean fashion without requiring direct access to something
as sensitive as gsmd.  At least, that's my take on it.

> --Dan

Cheers,
Jim.
>
> On 7/18/07, *Jim McDonald* <Jim at devzero.net <mailto:Jim at devzero.net>>
> wrote:
>
>     [This may have been better to post to the development list but as
>     people are talking about it here I'll start here]
>
>     Hi,
>        A number of people have been talking about the cool things that
>     they would like their 'phone to do but after spending some time
>     looking at the information available so far I don't see anything
>     that suggests the current codebase will allow people the freedom
>     that they need.  If I take a simple example of an incoming call
>     them some of the suggestions that we have seen so far to handle it
>     include different ring tones for different people or groups of
>     people, auto-handling of the call by sending it to voicemail or
>     letting it through, different responses depending on the time of
>     day, /etc.  /The point that I'm trying to make is that there are a
>     multitude of things that you /could/ do but each person will have
>     a limited number of things that they want the 'phone to /actually/
>     do.  As such, building out all of these options in to a single
>     piece of code will not only be very hard to manage and maintain
>     but will severely limit the ability of people to scratch their
>     itches and develop code to make the 'phone do what they want it to.
>
>        If the monolithic approach is out then some sort of modular
>     approach is required.  The most obvious example out there today is
>     Firefox, which comes in a relatively simple base configuration but
>     provides any number of hooks to allow people to write their own
>     extensions on top of the base code and as such to alter the
>     functionality of the product very extensively.  If we want this
>     openmoko to be as free as possible then it also needs to be as
>     easy as possible for people to extend, and this is the most likely
>     way of doing it.
>
>        I know that there are a lot of potential problems that need to
>     be addressed when building this out but if there is a vision from
>     the start as to how this would work then it would go a long way to
>     making the final product the 'phone that we are all dreaming of,
>     regardless of the fact that those dreams are often divergent from
>     others if not totally exclusive.  So my questions are there plans
>     to include these hooks, and if not can it be considered?
>
>        Or is there another way to do this other than hooks?
>
>     Cheers,
>     Jim.
>
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