[RFC] Unmanaged GPS setup / location source

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 2:02 PM, David McCullough
<david.mccullough at accelecon.com> wrote:
>
> Aleksander Morgado wrote the following:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I've been asked whether it would make sense to allow having
>> ModemManager control the status of the GPS module in a device, *but*
>> leaving the tty where the NMEA traces are dumped untouched. This would
>> allow to integrate with other standard GPS applications which read
>> from a tty, while leaving MM the control over when to enable/disable
>> the GPS module.
>>
>> Any comments on this?
>>
>> I have a draft implementation (mmcli commands not yet done) already in
>> the 'aleksander/gps-unmanaged' branch in upstream git, where I just
>> define a new MM_MODEM_LOCATION_SOURCE_GPS_UNMANAGED source. When this
>> source is enabled, GPS module is started but the GPS tty is not used.
>> Of course, the implementation also forbids trying to enable unmanaged
>> and raw/nmea GPS at the same time. Also, currently only done for
>> Option/HSO (the only plugin which does GPS over a tty for now). I may
>> add GPS support for Cinterion one of these days as well.
>
> I have recently completed Huawei support and have been meaning to send
> in a patch.  I get on to it before things start changing too much :-)
>

Ah! Superb :) Would really like to see that patch. How did you decide
which tty is the GPS port for NMEA traces? Flagging it through udev?
Or some other way?

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Aleksander
https://aleksander.es