interesting oddity in SAC rate display in profile infobox

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Thu, 2021-09-09 at 11:01 -0700, Linus Torvalds via subsurface wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:26 AM Robert Helling via subsurface
> <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
> > The problem is that the code that interpolates the pressures between staring and ending pressure by assuming a constant SAC is, how can I put it, an interesting project to understand….
> 
> Yeah, the code should actually be changed to not work on pressures at
> all, but on actual gas volume.
> 
> So the "interpolate pressures", should take the beginning/end
> pressures, turn those into actual volume (with compressibility etc),
> then interpolate that volume in that range assuming a constant SAC,
> and then write the interpolated volumes back as pressures again (with
> compressibility).
> 
> It shouldn't be fundamentally hard to do that conversion, but that
> code is, as you say, "interesting". It was interesting when it was
> written before all the compressibility code, it's doubly interesting
> now that it's several years old and people have forgotten some of the
> details.

Linus,

Do I read this correctly as you saying "hey, after Sunday's RC1 I will
be bored for a week or two and I'd love a fun little project"? Because
that's what it sounds like to me...

:-)

/D