[ntp:questions] nmea and initial large offset
David Woolley
david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Sat May 8 09:35:41 UTC 2010
Uwe Klein wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>> Defending silly algorithms in code with limitations in old hardware no
>> longer in use in running systems seems a bit silly to me.
>
>
> Any abstraction _must_ cover all variations that are sensible or
> expectable.
It seems to me that an abstraction that allows for the year is more
general than one that doesn't. It should be the driver's responsibility
for fixing up cases where the device doesn't provide the year, with
maybe the help of a driver support utility library routine.
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