From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
DTML <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"Thierry Reding" <treding@nvidia.com>,
"Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@kernel.org>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Tony Lindgren" <tony@atomide.com>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
"Kevin Hilman" <khilman@baylibre.com>,
"Benoît Cousson" <bcousson@baylibre.com>,
kernel@pyra-handheld.com,
"Discussions about the Letux Kernel"
<letux-kernel@openphoenux.org>,
linux-omap <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [Letux-kernel] [PATCH v5 3/5] misc serdev: Add w2sg0004 (gps receiver) power control driver
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:38:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180227183826.GA32473@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180227070415.GB18666@localhost>
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Hi!
> > > > Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others
> > > > are minor details which can be sorted out later).
> > > >
> > > > If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of
> > > > the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?
> > >
> > > Or even more fundamentally, does this belong in the kernel at all?
> >
> > Yes, it does.
>
> But not necessarily in its current form.
Not necessarily, no. OTOH this hack was not too bad IIRC and we
usually do present NMEA to userspace at the moment. We'll need proper
GPS subsystem one day, but I'm afraid that will take some time...
Pavel
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-01 7:49 [PATCH v5 0/5] misc serdev: new serdev based driver for Wi2Wi w2sg00x4 GPS module H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-12-01 7:49 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] dt-bindings: define vendor prefix for Wi2Wi, Inc H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-12-01 14:44 ` Andreas Färber
2017-12-01 7:49 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] dt-bindings: gps: add w2sg00x4 bindings documentation (GPS module with UART)) H. Nikolaus Schaller
[not found] ` <cover.1512114576.git.hns-xXXSsgcRVICgSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-01 7:49 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] misc serdev: Add w2sg0004 (gps receiver) power control driver H. Nikolaus Schaller
[not found] ` <5494ad34b39a6c62601e3747440268dfb3be7d5a.1512114576.git.hns-xXXSsgcRVICgSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-22 12:44 ` Johan Hovold
2017-12-22 14:40 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2018-01-09 11:55 ` [Letux-kernel] " H. Nikolaus Schaller
[not found] ` <90F9A8E4-035A-4A9E-8AAB-757491D63E69-xXXSsgcRVICgSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-12 15:39 ` Johan Hovold
2018-01-12 17:59 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2018-01-18 6:13 ` Johan Hovold
2018-01-18 13:43 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2018-03-07 15:53 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2018-03-19 14:05 ` Johan Hovold
2018-02-12 15:26 ` [Letux-kernel] " Pavel Machek
2018-02-27 7:04 ` Johan Hovold
2018-02-27 7:32 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2018-03-19 13:54 ` Johan Hovold
2018-03-20 14:49 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2018-03-26 13:59 ` Pavel Machek
2018-02-27 18:38 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2018-02-12 15:25 ` Pavel Machek
2018-01-09 17:43 ` Andreas Kemnade
2018-01-12 14:46 ` Johan Hovold
2018-01-12 18:40 ` Andreas Kemnade
[not found] ` <20180112194022.7da1e726-cLv4Z9ELZ06ZuzBka8ofvg@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-18 6:47 ` Johan Hovold
2018-03-08 6:16 ` Andreas Kemnade
2018-03-19 14:02 ` Johan Hovold
2017-12-01 7:49 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] misc serdev: w2sg0004: add debugging code and Kconfig H. Nikolaus Schaller
[not found] ` <5816bfb9e7cab68591c133e20696d6188ebe70de.1512114577.git.hns-xXXSsgcRVICgSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-22 12:51 ` Johan Hovold
2017-12-22 14:41 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
[not found] ` <A2720858-5172-4627-8133-C677E4B4DC72-xXXSsgcRVICgSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-22 14:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-01 7:49 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] DTS: gta04: add uart2 child node for w2sg00x4 H. Nikolaus Schaller
[not found] ` <1b1c7a8319eaf61a46eebd7a366ea745b7a54634.1512114577.git.hns-xXXSsgcRVICgSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-21 14:53 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-12-18 8:52 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] misc serdev: new serdev based driver for Wi2Wi w2sg00x4 GPS module H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-12-18 14:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20171218144816.GA31130-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-18 14:52 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
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