Re: [gpsd-users] Raspberry Pi progress

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> > gpsd -n -N -D 5 /dev/ttyAMA0 /dev/pps0
> > 
> > yields an attempt to open /dev/pps0 as a GPS device, failing.
> 
> Yes, that is normal, it is not a GPS device.  So theserial open should
> fail, but, when I coded it last year the PPS thread would continue.
> 
> Given other breakage recently noted in the file opening area I can
> believe it got broken in the last few months.
> 
> There is a recent patch to gpsd-dev to fix some of the breakage.

Do you have time to dig into this?  I'm up to my eyeballs in the HOWTO
and other stuff, and the PPS code is your baby.

Sounds like the open failure is emitting a spurious message that ought
to be suppressed.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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