Limited support for Suunto DM4

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Tue Mar 5 11:30:25 PST 2013


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Their own format with the profile, temperature and pressure blobs in
>> base64 encoded binary blob. I have one sample attached. SOB if you
>> want to include that.
>
> I do. This makes my eyes bleed.

That really is very lovely. XML with some odd binary data encoded as
base64. And all the interesting stuff is in that blob, making the XML
part totally pointless.

> Linus - what's in the water in Finland? The Suunto guys clearly are
> suffering from some serious degenerative brain issue... or they decided
> to use our heroes from Switzerland as their design idols, the current
> title holders for absolute heights of moronocity in file formats...

I do think we have a new winner. Finland! Finland! Finland!

                Linus


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