Any brave dive computer download testers out there?

[Sébastien Dugué]

Hello Linus,

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 5:35 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>  So libdivecomputer has a new custom IO model, which allows us to drop
> our home-made one.
>
> However, that new model is fairly different from our old model, and
> there were other updates too, so the changes are "flag-day" changes
> where we switch over both libdivecomputer and subsurface together.
>
> I have *TEST* branches for both, in case people want to help test.
> Note! I only do source code, so this really only works for people who
> can build their own subsurface binary, but if you are one of those
> hardy souls, it realy would be good to get more cases tested.

  That's really cool! I'll try that out tonight (CET) with my Uwatec DCs just to
check IRDA is still functional.

  Sébastien.

>
> I have verified and downloaded:
>
>  - Shearwater Perdix AI over BLE
>
>  - Suunto EON Core over USB
>
>  - Suunto Vyper Air over the Suunto USB serial line
>
> so many of the transports have been tested. But I don't have any
> rfcomm devices (ie old bluetooth) and I don't have any "direct USB"
> devices (eg Atomics Aquatics Cobalt).
>
> Also, I only tested on my Linux desktop, because that's how I roll.
>
> Anyway, if you can build subsurface and libdivercomputer, and are
> interested in testing, I have test branches for both:
>
>     https://github.com/torvalds/libdc-for-dirk.git Subsurface-NG
>
>     https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface-for-dirk.git libdivecomputer-NG
>
> NOTE! I may end up rebasing those branches, so don't consider them stable.
>
> NOTE 2! I have *not* set up that subsurface branch to have the
> submodule link to my libdivecomputer branch, partly exactly because
> these are unstable branches and I don't want to tie them together too
> tightly. So you should pull the subsurface and libdivecomputer
> subdirectories separately, and the usual "pull subsurface, then do
> 'git submodule update'" model will not work.
>
> It may break things. I'd be surprised if it doesn't. So keep that in
> mind. This is very much for people who are happy playing around and
> helping get some coverage for early work.
>
>                        Linus
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