2010/1/15 Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de>:
> 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.

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