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The libdivecomputer serial number handling is very very messy. There are multiple issues that make it messy: - it's not actually figured out at parse-time, it's figured out at download time and passed up through the DC_EVENT_DEVINFO as part of the devinfo structure. - it's passed around as an "unsigned in" in the devinfo structure, which is entirely useless to anybody but libdivecomputer, since a serial number isn't actually a number, but a string, and the format of the string depends on the dive computer. - it is *not* passed to the parser, so the parser can't do a better job at it later. But it turns out that the sane "create new parser" helper function does actually get it, as part of the "devinfo" that is passed to it. So as long as you use that sane interface, we can now pass it in to the actual parser creation, and then the dive computer parsers that want to do a reasonable job of actually generating a real serial number string can now save it off and do so. This just adds the infrastructure to make this possible. I'll do the dive computers one by one. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Overview ======== Libdivecomputer is a cross-platform and open source library for communication with dive computers from various manufacturers. The official web site is: http://www.libdivecomputer.org/ The sourceforge project page is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdivecomputer/ Installation ============ On UNIX-like systems (including Linux, Mac OS X, MinGW), use the autotools based build system. Run the following commands from the top directory (containing this file) to configure, build and install the library and utilities: $ ./configure $ make $ make install If you downloaded the libdivecomputer source code directly from the git source code repository, then you need to create the configure script as the first step: $ autoreconf --install To uninstall libdivecomputer again, run: $ make uninstall Support ======= Please send bug reports, feedback or questions to the mailing list: http://libdivecomputer.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel or contact me directly: jef@libdivecomputer.org License ======= Libdivecomputer is free software, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.