Re: [gpsd-dev] PATCH for resetting serial speed on exit

[Jon Schlueter]

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.

Jon