implement support for 3-digit MNC with leading zeros

Enable representing three-digit MNC with leading zeros. The MNCs 23 and 023 are
actually different; so far we treated both as 23. Re-encode an incoming BCD or
string of 023 as it were, i.e. not dropping the leading zero as 23.

Break ABI compatibility by changing the size and ordering of structs
gprs_ra_id, osmo_plmn_id, osmo_cell_global_id, ... by adding an mnc_3_digits
flag.

Change ordering in gprs_ra_id because the canonical oder is {Mobile Country
Code, Mobile Network Code}, so have the mcc member first.

ABI compatibility cannot be maintained for struct gprs_ra_id, since it is a
direct member of structs bssgp_bvc_ctx and bssgp_paging_info, and even just
adding a flag to the end would cause ABI changes of those structs. Similarly,
osmo_plmn_id is a direct member of osmo_location_area_id, and so forth.

Add new API to set and read this additional flag to preserve leading zeros:
- osmo_plmn_to_bcd(), osmo_plmn_from_bcd() after
  gsm48_mcc_mnc_to_bcd() and gsm48_mcc_mnc_from_bcd().
- gsm48_decode_lai2(), gsm48_generate_lai2() after
  gsm48_decode_lai(), gsm48_generate_lai().
- gsm0808_create_layer3_2() after gsm0808_create_layer3() and gsm0808_create_layer3_aoip().
- various osmo_*_name() functions in gsm23003.h (osmo_rai_name() still in
  gsm48.h close to struct gprs_ra_id definition). The amount and duplication of
  these may seem a bit overboard, but IMO they do make sense in this way.
  Though most code will soon see patches unifying the data structures used, in
  some cases (vty, ctrl) they are required singled out. Without these
  functions, the formatting ("%0*u", mnc_3_digits ?  3 : 2, mnc) would be
  duplicated all over our diverse repositories.

In various log output, include the leading MNC zeros.

Mark one TODO in card_fs_sim.c, I am not sure how to communicate a leading zero
to/from a SIM card FS. The focus here is on the core network / BSS.

To indicate ABI incompatibility, bump libosmogsm and libosmogb LIBVERSIONs;
adjust debian files accordingly.

Implementation choices:

- The default behavior upon zero-initialization will be the mnc_3_digits flag
  set to false, which yields exactly the previous behavior.

- I decided against packing the mnc with the mnc_3_digits field into a
  sub-struct because it would immediately break all builds of dependent
  projects: it would require immediate merging of numerous patches in other
  repositories, and it would make compiling older code against a newer
  libosmocore unneccessarily hard.

Change-Id: Id2240f7f518494c9df6c8bda52c0d5092f90f221
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tree: 0eecba6800e7ac3a714d8a7b7183b6c44bb09f40
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  2. debian/
  3. doc/
  4. include/
  5. m4/
  6. src/
  7. tests/
  8. utils/
  9. .gitignore
  10. .gitreview
  11. .mailmap
  12. configure.ac
  13. COPYING
  14. Doxyfile.codec.in
  15. Doxyfile.coding.in
  16. Doxyfile.core.in
  17. Doxyfile.gb.in
  18. Doxyfile.gsm.in
  19. Doxyfile.vty.in
  20. git-version-gen
  21. libosmocodec.pc.in
  22. libosmocoding.pc.in
  23. libosmocore.pc.in
  24. libosmoctrl.pc.in
  25. libosmogb.pc.in
  26. libosmogsm.pc.in
  27. libosmosim.pc.in
  28. libosmovty.pc.in
  29. Makefile.am
  30. osmo-release.mk
  31. osmo-release.sh
  32. README.md
  33. TODO-RELEASE
README.md

libosmocore - set of Osmocom core libraries

This repository contains a set of C-language libraries that form the core infrastructure of many Osmocom Open Source Mobile Communications projects.

Historically, a lot of this code was developed as part of the OpenBSC project, but which are of a more generic nature and thus useful to (at least) other programs that we develop in the sphere of Free Software / Open Source mobile communications.

There is no clear scope of it. We simply move all shared code between the various Osmocom projects in this library to avoid code duplication.

The libosmcoore.git repository build multiple libraries:

  • libosmocore contains some general-purpose functions like select-loop abstraction, message buffers, timers, linked lists
  • libosmovty contains routines related to the interactive command-line interface called VTY
  • libosmogsm contains definitions and helper code related to GSM protocols
  • libosmoctrl contains a shared implementation of the Osmocom control interface
  • libosmogb contains an implementation of the Gb interface with its NS/BSSGP protocols
  • libosmocodec contains an implementation of GSM voice codecs
  • libosmocoding contains an implementation of GSM channel coding
  • libosmosim contains infrastructure to interface SIM/UICC/USIM cards
  • libosmotrau contains encoding/decoding functions for A-bis TRAU frames

Homepage

The official homepage of the project is https://osmocom.org/projects/libosmocore/wiki/Libosmocore

GIT Repository

You can clone from the official libosmocore.git repository using

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore.git

There is a cgit interface at http://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore/

Documentation

Doxygen-generated API documentation is generated during the build process, but also available online for each of the sub-libraries at http://ftp.osmocom.org/api/latest/libosmocore/

Mailing List

Discussions related to libosmocore are happening on the openbsc@lists.osmocom.org mailing list, please see https://lists.osmocom.org/mailman/listinfo/openbsc for subscription options and the list archive.

Please observe the Osmocom Mailing List Rules when posting.

Contributing

Our coding standards are described at https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Coding_standards

We us a gerrit based patch submission/review process for managing contributions. Please see https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Gerrit for more details

The current patch queue for libosmocore can be seen at https://gerrit.osmocom.org/#/q/project:libosmocore+status:open