On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 07:00:02AM -0700, Michael Leibowitz wrote:
> 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? 
It's sometime in the future because we're currently using the rfkill
interface in read-only mode, i.e. for getting the rfkill events and updating
our offline/online status. We'd have to write to it when being requested to
turn a technology on and off.
This is something we need to do, and presenting an rfkill interface from your
GPS driver should be enough.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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