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
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