Re: [gpsd-dev] Possible Bug in libgpsd_core.c

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Neustifter!

Revisiting an old thread.  Not that I forgot, but because the
solution was time consuming to create.

> > I can also see that the
> > regression test are failing big time since the downgrade is actually
> > reported to the clients. Most probably this has unintended
> > consequences for the majority of GPSd users.  

You had proposed a small patch that fixed a u-blox issue, but broke
a large number of NMEA regressions.  Luckily only NMEA 183.

> The problem is many GPS report, in a single cycle, the fix quality
> in different ways.  gpsd has to merge them into a final mode.  That
> is hard to do.

Yeah, hard.  I moved the late in the packet processing test for
fix downgrading back into the NMEA driver where it belonged.

But that broke gpsd_error_model(), as well as a ton of regression tests.

That led to not just a few compensating changes.  I could not figure
any way to change just a few things at a time.  So I ended up with
a pretty large change to the way driver_nmea0183 decides the
current fix mode.  Also changes to the error modeling.

Seems like a lot of the error modeling was just plain broken with NMEA,
and likely some other drivers.

The results just feels a lot better.

The end result was just pushed to git head.

Please test.

RGDS
GARY
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