Re: Bug report in gpsd - azimuth 360

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Stephen!

> > 1. Issue
> > 
> >      gpsd is rejecting valid azimuth values of 360 returned by
> > NAV-SAT records in U-Blox M8 based devices  
> 
> Ugh.  All UBX-NAV-SAT regardless of the device...

[...]

> We have seen u-blox rsend out of band data.  So far it seems to be
> some sort of debug status encoding.  Please provide a sample of
> the bad data.  At least several seconds of data.
> 
> When confirmed, I apply your patch.

Since no samples have come, I applied a patch anyway.

It can not be very common, of all the UBX data captures in the regressions,
none showed this issue.  If you ever capture an example, send it along.

> > There is another line in driver_ubx.c for a different record that
> > also rejects values of 360 (line 3664).  It may be desired to change
> > this comparison as well.  
> 
> That is in UBX-NAV-SVINFO.  The doc just says "deg".

None of the UBX regressions has an example of 360 == az in NAV-SVINFO,
So I left NAV-SVINFO as is.

I'll push to git head later today.

RGDS
GARY
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