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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	"linux-iio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@intel.com>,
	NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>,
	"linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: GPS drivers (was Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Serial slave device bus)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:22:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170120142242.GC5241@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdaf6uy6C6J5mcVF4dDPG7gwJ2vkR4ECLYSsT5-DRNNfcA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi!

Switched subject: Rob's work is great for GPS and bluetooth, but this
goes beyond it.

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > There's still some discussion about what to do with devices that pass thru
> > data to userspace unmodified like GPS and could still use tty device for
> > the data path. IMO, we should treat this as a separate problem following
> > this series. Drivers we want to convert to serdev and already in the
> > kernel don't need this functionality.
> 
> In my simple opinion GPSes shound live in drivers/iio/gps simply by
> usecase association: streaming out a series of accelerometer readings
> periodically through IIOs chardevs and other data about the physical
> world is not any different from the GPS usecase that give you a stream
> of coordinates on where on this planet you are.

That is... not quite how GPSes work. What interface would you propose?
It would be good to support error estimates in position/velocities and
AGPS data upload.

Now, NMEA knows about some of the complexity (not AGPS), but gets the
details wrong. In particular, it would be good to have error estimates
and velocities from the same moment you get position estimates. 

> The fact that vendors like to defer GPS processing to userspace because
> it is considered "secret sauce" is not the concern of the kernel community,
> though problems like that in general is the great tragedy of our time.
> 
> It would be fun to see a pure, reverse-engineered GPS driver in IIO.

Well, many GPSes simply produce NMEA, and we have drivers for some other.

Here's example driver:

https://gitlab.com/tui/tui/blob/master/ofone/gps3.c

Best regards,
									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-20 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-16 22:54 [PATCH v2 0/9] Serial slave device bus Rob Herring
2017-01-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] tty: move the non-file related parts of tty_release to new tty_release_struct Rob Herring
2017-01-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] tty_port: allow a port to be opened with a tty that has no file handle Rob Herring
2017-01-17 14:57   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2017-01-19 13:37   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-01-19 15:05     ` Rob Herring
2017-01-19 15:23       ` Rob Herring
2017-01-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] tty_port: make tty_port_register_device wrap tty_port_register_device_attr Rob Herring
2017-01-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] tty: constify tty_ldisc_receive_buf buffer pointer Rob Herring
2017-01-19 16:24   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-01-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] tty_port: Add port client functions Rob Herring
2017-01-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] dt/bindings: Add a serial/UART attached device binding Rob Herring
2017-01-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] serdev: Introduce new bus for serial attached devices Rob Herring
2017-01-18 11:53   ` Frédéric Danis
2017-01-18 21:26     ` Rob Herring
2017-01-18 21:26       ` Rob Herring
2017-01-18 21:26       ` Rob Herring
2017-01-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] serdev: add a tty port controller driver Rob Herring
2017-01-18 12:42   ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-01-18 15:03     ` Rob Herring
2017-01-16 22:54 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] tty_port: register tty ports with serdev bus Rob Herring
2017-01-17 11:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Serial slave device bus Pavel Machek
2017-01-20  1:36 ` msuchanek
2017-01-20  1:36   ` msuchanek
2017-01-20  9:50   ` Sebastian Reichel
2017-01-20  9:50     ` Sebastian Reichel
2017-01-20 13:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-01-20 13:44   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-01-20 13:55 ` Linus Walleij
2017-01-20 13:55   ` Linus Walleij
2017-01-20 14:14   ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-01-20 14:23     ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-01-20 14:23       ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-01-20 14:23       ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-01-20 14:22   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2017-01-20 15:26     ` GPS drivers (was Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Serial slave device bus) Linus Walleij
2017-01-20 15:26       ` Linus Walleij
2017-01-20 16:16       ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-01-20 16:16         ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-01-27 20:02         ` Pavel Machek
2017-01-27 20:02           ` Pavel Machek
2017-01-20 20:23       ` Pavel Machek

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