Hal Murray wrote: >>> It would be really nice if there was a clean way to specify the >>> baud rate. >> This is a general issue -- there are other drivers (e.g. the HP 58503) >> that also assume a fixed baud rate and parity/stop bits. They cause a >> lot of problems when trying to use not-quite-identical hardware (as in >> using the Z3801A with the HP driver that assumes a different baud rate >> and parity). A way in the config file to cleanly specify comm >> parameters would be a real step forward. > > On the other hand, if there are only 2 variants (58503/3801) > then I'd rather specify the variant and get all the line > parameters together. > > The main problem with the NMEA driver is that the mode field > is already in use. >
I don't know; it seems to me better for the refclock driver to specify a default set of comm parameters that will work for the "standard" device that refclock supports, but have a universal mechanism that would allow overriding those params from the config file and would work for any driver. John _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
