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[gpsd-dev] Refclock cleanup
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Hal Murray |
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[gpsd-dev] Refclock cleanup |
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Thu, 05 May 2016 13:34:40 -0700 |
address@hidden said:
> I think we are mostly in agreement. Short term we need #20, long term it is
> cruft.
I'm not sure I'd call it "cruft", but I'll be happy to use it as a test case
if/when we come up with the great refclock cleanup.
> In the very long term, I'd like to see the gpsd NMEA parser as a module that
> can be standalone for use with ntpd.
That's not good enough. When you are trying to debug, tune, or monitor things,
you need a lot of logging that isn't part of the gpsd culture.
> I see a trend in GPS to emit basic NMEA, and move the fun stuff into
> proprietary and binary. Since ntpd only needs the basic NMEA it need not
> have the bulk of gpsd's drivers.
Some of the fun stuff may be interesting to log/monitor.
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