From: Guilhem B. <gui...@gm...> - 2010-01-15 12:59:06
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2010/1/15 Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bz...>: > Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: >> An other significant bug, IMHO, is the #2766373: GPS on ttyUSB3 is not >> accessable >> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2766373&group_id=83870&atid=570954 >> >> One solution is to change the current PARAM_PORT parameter nature. >> Currently, it is an integer, used as index for a predefined list of >> ports. I suggest to replace it with raw string, storing the effective >> port value ("/dev/ttyUSB3" for example). >> >> Such change will brake compatibility between versions. Perhaps can we >> find a way to stay ascendant compatible. > > Do we need that at all? > If I remember right you should be able to request a list of known devices from > gpsd - you could display these then. Configuring gpsd properly to use devices is > nothing viking should need to do. > See http://gpsd.berlios.de/gpsd.html - the command is ?DEVICES for the new > protocol. Actually I'm not sure if theres a proper replacement for that in the > old protocol, also I think it doesn't make much sense to be backward compatible > forever, so probably just drop the device selection when building viking with an > old libgps, instead just use the data as it comes from gpsd without any > filtering by device. Humh... I'm tthink there is a misunderstood. The stuff I modified is not related to gpsd. It is the stuff related to direct upload/dowload with gps device. This feature uses gpsbabel. -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- JID: gu...@im... MSN: gui...@ho... -=- mailto:gui...@gm... -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ |