Description:
dongled - Android Service Deamon which listens to usb devices using the UEVENT Socket
Purpose:
This daemon handles the intialization of 3G Dongles, Mainly Manaufactured by Huawei and can be used in place
place usb_modeswitch.
Motivation:
The ability to do more with less is the primary goal here. It forms part of a greater whole to make
a framework for managing external USB Modems on android.
Method:
The service waits the UEVENT of a valid device which is then processed by the internal implementation of
the usb_modeswitch. If the modeswitch is successful then the ril-daemon service is started to carry on the
process of establishing a connection. A devices validality is first looked for in the daemons internal list
for valid modeswitch configuaration. If none is found internally a number of known location are.
This retains the flexibility of the usb_modeswitch configuration files while wrapping the known good configuaration.
Coldboot:
When the service is started, the usb bus is checked for existing usb devices which have a valid configuration.
if a device is found then modeswitch is initiate. This functionality is fired off in a seperate thread so after
this "manual" modeswitch has taken place the uevent handler should handle any proceeding calls sub as creation
of the tty devices etc.
Setup
Add the following service definition to the bottom of the init.rc
service dongled /system/bin/logwrapper /system/bin/dongled
class core
user root
group system