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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-15 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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