From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Char/Misc driver patches for 4.19-rc1
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:19:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180831111936.GA18291@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180818155844.GA22720@kroah.com>
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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.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-31 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-18 15:58 [GIT PULL] Char/Misc driver patches for 4.19-rc1 Greg KH
2018-08-31 11:19 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2018-09-01 3:54 ` Greg KH
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