Recovery Mechanism - documentation misleading

[awneil]

The description of the “Recovery Mechanism” in the ADL User Guide is misleading:

@ADL User Guide for Open AT® OS v6.21

2.10 Recovery Mechanism
This mechanism has been introduced in the Wavecom firmware with the IDS service.
It allows to avoid infinite and uncontrolled reset loop in the firmware.

This suggests that it only applies when IDS is used - but that is not the case.

There also seems to be a bug (or, at least, an undocumented limitation) after a crashing application has been stopped - see: Bug in Sierra Wireless Software Suite Recovery Mechanism?

@ADL User Guide for Open AT® OS v6.21

When a reset loop occurs, Open AT® application is stopped after approximately 8 successive resets.

My emphasis - why is it “approximately”?! Is it really non-deterministic

[paruthiv]

ADL User Guide for Open AT® OS v6.21 wrote:2.10 Recovery Mechanism
This mechanism has been introduced in the Wavecom firmware with the IDS service.
It allows to avoid infinite and uncontrolled reset loop in the firmware.

It has been mentioned that “Recovery Mechanism was introduced in the Wavecom firmware with the IDS service” and it is not mentioned that “it is available only with the IDS service”.

So i think its not a problem.

[awneil]

@paruthiv

it is not mentioned that “it is available only with the IDS service”

True, but the way that it is only mentioned in relation to IDS could suggest that.

I still say it should be made clearer.

And, of course, that “approximately” needs to be explained!