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Message-ID: <20180901035434.GF27141@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 20:54:34 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
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
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
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