Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:19:36 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Char/Misc driver patches for 4.19-rc1 |
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Hi!
> - gnss, finally an in-kernel GPS subsystem to try to tame all of > the crazy out-of-tree drivers that have been floating around > for years, combined with some really hacky userspace > implementations. This is only for GNSS receivers, but you > have to start somewhere, and this is great to see.
Yes, it is labeled as a GPS subsystem, but there's nothing GPS specific in there; it does not understand the data, it just passes around bytes.
Which would not be a problem, except that it takes /dev/gnssX namespace, so when we need to introduce hardware abstraction for GPS, we will not have suitable names available.
I believe this should be fixed before we are stuck with bad ABI forever.
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