Refclock cleanup

[Hal Murray]

gem at rellim.com said:
> I think we are mostly in agreement.  Short term we need #20, long term it is
> cruft. 

I'm not sure I'd call it "cruft", but I'll be happy to use it as a test case 
if/when we come up with the great refclock cleanup.


> In the very long term, I'd like to see the gpsd NMEA parser as a module that
> can be standalone for use with ntpd. 

That's not good enough.  When you are trying to debug, tune, or monitor things, you need a lot of logging that isn't part of the gpsd culture.

> I see a trend in GPS to emit basic NMEA, and move the fun stuff into
> proprietary and binary.  Since ntpd only needs the basic NMEA it need not
> have the bulk of gpsd's drivers. 

Some of the fun stuff may be interesting to log/monitor.


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