Re: [gpsd-dev] Fw: [PATCH] gpsd: Don't gratuitously switch drivers, if we already have a driver that matches the packet type

[Michael R. Davis]

Gary and Andy,

> There is also another list posting that I can't
> find right now, with someone with a similar problem.

I reported this issue a few years back. I have a BU-303 on a USB device and after a period of time it always gets a bad packet and switches to some other driver.  The period could be 1 day or 1 month.  But, it was eventual.

My proposed solution was to have a configuration file to disable or enable certain drivers.  Major distributions need to ship gpsd with all drivers compiled in but cannot afford to have the driver switch if gpsd gets one bad packet.

Thanks,
Mike

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