linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Char/Misc driver patches for 4.19-rc1

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Date:   Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:19:36 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Char/Misc driver patches for 4.19-rc1

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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