Some initial work for the new Suunto EON Steel firmware update

[Jef Driesen]

On 2015-06-09 01:25, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I'll get to the actual sample data later today, I hope.
> 
> .. and here's that third patch that converts the sample parsing to
> dynamically using the actual sample type descriptions.
> 
> This includes actually parsing things like the group descriptions (ie
> where one "packet type" can be defined as a group of basic types, kind
> of like a limited "struct" in C). It doesn't really parse the unit
> conversion descriptions, since those seem to be mainly informational,
> but it does do things like sanity-check the type sizes etc.
> 
> This has so far been tested only with my old dives, but since the code
> builds up the parsing tables from the descriptions, that's actually a
> pretty good test in itself: instead of "knowing" what the sample
> structures are like the old code did, it just worked it out itself.
> The end result is identical to the old parser, with the exception that
> the new parser also parses the compass heading events.
> 
> Maybe I'll remember to take the EON steel to the pool tomorrow and get
> this at least partially validated that way - otherwise further testing
> will wait until next week.
> 
> Please apply

The second and third patch do not apply cleanly against master. I guess 
I'll have to sort out some of the differences with the subsurface branch 
first. I'll have a look at that tomorrow.

Jef