[RFC] machine/vendor plugins

[pHilipp Zabel]

On 4/1/07, Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I took a quick stab at introducing machine plugins. The attached patch
> does not work since I have pushed the vendor plugins out into shared
> libraries and they can't call back into the main binary (gsmd_simplecmd
> doesn't resolve).

This is fixed. By using the --export-dynamic ld switch for gsmd, the
plugins loaded by dlopen can call back into the main binary.

> The basic idea was to do machine detection based on the /proc/cpuinfo
> Hardware field or use the generic machine plugin if that fails.
> If a machine was found, we load that machine plugin and we know which
> vendor plugin to load. Otherwise gsmd could just load all available
> vendor plugins and let them check AT+CGMI/CGMM in their detect routine -
> the current code doesn't do that part yet.
>
> Any ideas how to proceed?

regards
Philipp
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