[PATCH 0/2] Clean up some of the dive computer nickname code

Miika Turkia miika.turkia at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 22:26:30 PST 2013


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Suunto Stinger and Suunto D4 give the correct serial number.
>
> Ok, good. Those use different backends in libdivecomputer, and with
> those we've got most of the backends handled (the stinger uses the old
> vyper back-end, together with the Gekko and Zoop, which are probably
> the most common suunto dive computers, while the D4 uses the D9
> backend).
>
> The Suunto Solution and Eon use some other back-end, but it sounds
> very likely that they all use the same logic, so it's probably all
> fine.
>
> How did you verify the serial number? Against that DM4 reports, or do
> you still have the original boxes with serial number stickers on them?
> I've never been able to run Suunto DM, so I was lucky that I had my
> old boxes still (well, the HelO2 box isn't that old).

These two computers have (luckily) the serial number printed in the
back. Fortunately you had the Vyper Air already sorted out so I did
not have to disassemble that strap and dig out the printed out serial
from somewhere inside. Running Windows software is not an option ;)

miika


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