Hi Linus, >> 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. > > 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. except for the pure NMEA devices. Which are pretty much defined as terminal devices using RS422 and 4800 baud. For anything non-NMEA, I would agree that using IIO might be a good option. So instead of a GPS subsystem, might just have a GPS class / type in the IIO subsystem. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
