Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] gnss: add new GNSS subsystem

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Fri Jun 29 2018 - 08:09:27 EST


On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 02:05:54PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2018-06-29 13:46:46, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:46:07AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Finally, note that documentation (including kerneldoc) remains to be
> > > > > written, but hopefully this will not hinder review given that the
> > > > > current interfaces are fairly self-describing.
> > > >
> > > > This all looks great. Thanks for doing this work and adding a new
> > > > subsystem for something that has been asked for for many years.
> > > >
> > > > All now merged in my tree, nice job!
> > >
> > > I don't think discussion was finished on this one.
> > >
> > > In particular, we agreed that /dev/gnssrawX would be better device
> > > name, so that we still have place where to put proper abstraction
> > > layer in future.
> >
> > I did not agree with you on that. I said we could consider that name if
> > this was to be changed at all, which I do not think is necessary for
> > the reasons spelled out in this thread.
>
> So, again: there's nothing gnss specific in those patches. It does not
> know about the format of the data passed around. (Best you can claim
> that somehow data flow characteristics are unique to gnss.) And this
> takes namespace needed for real gnss subsystem. Please don't do it.

This is the real gnss subsystem. Get over it.

Johan