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

[Eric S. Raymond]

Jon Schlueter <address@hidden>:
> 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.

You are right; that is the reason GPSD tries to leace ports in the state
it found them.  Because, in the USB world of hotplugging, we never know when
a port that was temporarily in use for a GPS might normally be used for 
something else that doesn;t autoconfigure.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>