On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:09:38PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > These two patches adds support for the Atheros AR1520 GPS device, > currently only pegged onto an mrst platform. This creates a character > device called ar1520 and lets userspace talk to it through it. My only > concern against this approach is that it this requires a custom userspace > application for reseting the device, waking it up and for blocking reads > through ioctl. The character device can be used to read/write data to it > as well. I really don't like using a character device for this, what's wrong with a tty device instead like other GPS devices are using today (i.e. a number of USB GPS devices)? I don't understand what these ioctls are supposed to be doing, can't they map to standard tty ioctls that we already have for flow control so that userspace doesn't have to write a whole new application just to talk to yet-another-gps-device? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
