On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 06:42 -0700, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:57:08PM -0700, Michael Leibowitz wrote: > > What is required for connman to detect a device as a GPS? I see only > > the hh2serial_gps plugin as something that sets type to be gps, but I > > don't see any other reference. If I wanted to get connman support for a > > different type of GPS, do I need to create another plugin? Is there a > > generic way?
> The ideal way would be for the gps driver to provide a proper rfkill > interface, in which case we could easily add a write support to our current > rfkill code and support that out of the box. But I understand this by far not > the usual case with the existing gps drivers (Kernel maintainers should no > longer accept gps drivers without an rfkill interface, but that's another > topic). Since I'm working with the GPS driver folks, I have asked that they add an rfkill interface. Is that sufficient? Or is this an ideal future world? > The second choice would be to have a gps plugin using libudev and trying to be > smart about detecting gps devices. If that still fails, we could have specific > plugins like the hh2serial junk, which was quickly hacked as you probably > guessed. > > Maybe Marcel has some other plans for GPS support, but providing a generic > support for devices that don't expose any generic API is going to be tricky. Marcel? Cheers _______________________________________________ connman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman
