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


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