XML format change

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Fri Jan 4 16:31:26 PST 2013


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> There is still one problem with this. Our deviceid today includes the
> firmware version. So if you upgrade your firmware, Subsurface thinks
> that this is a different divecomputer and will not pick up the existing
> nickname (or actually ask you for a new nickname for it).

I  think that's a *feature*.

If you want to call them the same thing, you can always just give them
the same nickname. But we'd actually *want* different ID's for the
dive computers exactly so that we can then have things like firmware
information for those two different ID's.

             Linus


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