Patches to add basic support for the Suunto EON Steel

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I can happily just say "screw libdivecomputer", and do a EON Steel
> importer inside subsurface, the way the Uemis one does. If that's what
> you want, I'll do it. It will probably make it much easier to get the
> patches accepted.

..  btw, not just that, but it will make some of the interfaces
simpler too if I can just fill in the data directly into our
divecomputer structure. So I certainly don't object to changing my
importer to be more Uemis-like. No callbacks, no impedance matching,
no need to try to make things compile in an odd environment etc.

I still think it would be *much* better if we fed the thing back to
libdivecomputer. Not because I particularly care about the other
projects that use it, but just because it's the right thing to do.

But I really think it's wrong to parse the data twice. So if we want
battery information, I'm not going to be part of anything that says
"here's the raw vendor information, you parse it again yourself". That
just makes me throw up in my mouth a little. I'd make it return the
data as a string. And NOT using DC_SAMPLE_VENDOR, but as something
that is *defined* to pass up a string, so that it isn't some one-off
random hack.

                    Linus