Re: [ gpsdrive ] removing direct serial support?

["Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)" <gpsdrive@ostertag.name>]

On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:11, Andreas Brauchli wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 11:33 +0100, Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive
>
> Munich/Germany) wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > one other thing comes to my mind, joerg:
> > > as almost all gps-receivers should work more or less with gpsd, is the
> > > built in serial support in gpsdrive still needed, or could it be
> > > removed?
>
> i say remove it.. but what if we made a fake gpsd with this serial-code,
> that way people for whom this is working but not gpsd could fire up this
> one instead of gpsd. not really clean but should work, and it's out of
> the gpsdrive core.
>
> > I would remove it, but as i recall it was a question of complexity for
> > the embedded users to start two processes. Maybe we could solve this by
> > giving them them the possibility to start gpsd from inside gpsdrive
> > automatically if it's not already started.
>
> possible, but gpsd is in /usr/sbin - thought to be started as root, it
> will drop privileges by itself. still better to try running it as
> non-root, and notify if it can't connect to a gps than leaving a rookie
> with a gpsdrive without gpsd at all.

I think the only application for direct serial nmea parsing would be for 
embedded devices. So every good suggestion how to make gpsdrive+gpsd on 
embedded devices easier to install and start would be welcome.

-
Joerg
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