On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 01:19:36PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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.
Given that no such code seems to be showing up any year soon, that's a request that we will just have to deal with if it ever shows up. What we have now in the tree is good enough for now. greg k-h
