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Re: [gpsd-dev] PATCH for resetting serial speed on exit
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Gary E. Miller |
Subject: |
Re: [gpsd-dev] PATCH for resetting serial speed on exit |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:19:23 -0700 |
Yo Jon!
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:40:02 -0400
Jon Schlueter <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> >> I can never figure out why people want that. We just went to the
> >> work of doing auto-baud, and all that is thrown away so the next
> >> run of gpsd has to autobaud again.
> >
> > You raise an interesting point.
> >
> > I'll have to stare at that code for a while abd documebnt its
> > assumptions. Might be a design error there.
>
> If this is actually a GPS device I would tend to agree, but if GPSD
> scans a serial port that is connected to some other serial port that
> does not have a GPS on it and leaves the serial port in some random
> state, that would be a bit of an annoyance.
Good point. So skip returning the port to its original state only if a
GPS was detected.
RGDS
GARY
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