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From: Patrick Maupin <pmaupin@gmail.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net, tz <tz2026@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Thumbgps-devel] USB handshake signals and Linux
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:55:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPz3yKdG4Rs3EG2o6St2wKLzCksOUnUKSuq7e-xLyaifUt-AJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120315193610.GB5250@thyrsus.com>

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Might be difficult to get the vendors to implement [custom VID/PID]
> it if they did - their focus on cost-cutting is pretty brutal, and leads
> to chop-shop engineering with results you've already seen in the Xucai
> dongle.

May not matter.  In many cases the VID/PID are reprogrammable.  So the
user could be told to reprogram his dongle to this VID/PID, and GPSD
could pick it up more reliably, and other programs might more reliably
leave it alone.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAFv7OigTLhw24i+jRshv0YgLogyx_GEREAOkP7tieeH1Nr5WzA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-03-15 14:37 ` tz
2012-03-15 14:52   ` Ron Frazier (NTP)
2012-03-15 17:57     ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-03-15 18:31   ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-03-15 18:54     ` Patrick Maupin
2012-03-15 19:36       ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-03-15 19:55         ` Patrick Maupin [this message]
2012-03-15 19:14     ` tz
2012-03-15 19:50       ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-03-14 10:49 Eric S. Raymond
2012-03-14 12:55 ` Ron Frazier (NTP)
2012-03-14 12:58   ` Ron Frazier (NTP)
2012-03-14 18:13 ` Patrick Maupin
2012-03-14 18:42   ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-03-14 18:57     ` Dave Taht
2012-03-14 20:09       ` Patrick Maupin
2012-03-15  3:33     ` Patrick Maupin
2012-03-15  4:23       ` Eric S. Raymond

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