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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-12-16 18:27:18 -0500 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-12-16 18:27:18 -0500 |
commit | a7b4401c57dd2b35460685e8762b2d4da0baf4d0 (patch) | |
tree | ce38ee893b3281e790bacef91b06c2b087c752d5 /www | |
parent | 4a8ba33a11077c241c60cf888f1c5ddb6bbb5b4b (diff) | |
download | gpsd-a7b4401c57dd2b35460685e8762b2d4da0baf4d0.tar.gz |
Abolish gpsd_report.c. No more hardwired logging from the client libraries.
Only the daemon now uses this function.
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-rw-r--r-- | www/client-howto.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/www/client-howto.txt b/www/client-howto.txt index f9669bf3..bfc078a4 100644 --- a/www/client-howto.txt +++ b/www/client-howto.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ = GPSD Client HOWTO = Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> -v1.2, April 2010 +v1.3, December 2010 This document is mastered in asciidoc format. If you are reading it in HTML, you can find the original at @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ that in at least the following ways: Time to fix after a power-on matters because in many use cases for GPSes they're running off a battery, and you can't afford to keep them powered when you don't actually need location data. This is why GPS -sensors are usually designed to go to a low-power mode when you close +sensors are sometimes designed to go to a low-power mode when you close the serial port they're attached to. AIS receivers have a simpler set of constraints. They report @@ -399,5 +399,9 @@ In major versions before 5: a different return convention. The name 'poll()' will at some point be reintroduced as an interface to the wire-protocol POLL command. +* Clients needed to define a gpsd_report() function for c;ient-side logging + if they didn't want code in netlib.c and libgps_core.c to occasionally + senfd messages to stderr. This requirement is now gone. + See http://gpsd.berlios.de/future.html#api_cleanup[Client API Cleanup] for details. |