Yo James! On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:28:36 -0700 (PDT) James Browning <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a patch that fixes a perceived issue in the Garmin text driver
> going back to March 2011.
"Perceived?" Either you can prove it or not.
> Gary is refusing to merge it unless I have a regression sample from an
> actual device manufactured by Garmin, and with official Garmin
> firmware.
Not exactly what I said. If you are going to call it a Garmin Fix, then
yes, a real regression is needed.
But, if the fix fixes something else, then that needs to be stated and
proven. Not simplye "perceived".
> I do not have such a device. I do not know where to find one. If
> someone would provide such a regression file, I would appreciate it.
Long standing policy, gpsd does not take patches based on unvalidated
emulators. I have suggested instead that the Garmin TXT driver be
removed as it never seems to have been used and is not long obsolete.
> If such a file can not be acquired, I would suggest changing the
> "garmintxt" boolean option in SConscript to False for the next release
> and removing all traces of it in the earlier of 3.30 or 4.0.
Exactly what I have been suggesting for a while. Get on with it.
RGDS
GARY
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