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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-09-09 02:53:33 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-09-09 02:53:33 +0000
commit7baf1767999bd4636c151139cc1c45fe0fc3ed0e (patch)
treea07f2e0388460b8636bec932d730f61df757c616
parent2b345598bfe0fd11cfcf1796816a9c09e26cecfd (diff)
downloadgpsd-7baf1767999bd4636c151139cc1c45fe0fc3ed0e.tar.gz
Make note of some things that need to be done.
-rw-r--r--TODO4
-rw-r--r--gpsd.spec.in10
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 72b71798..800489a6 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-* Debugging EarthMate support
+* Debug Zodiac EarthMate support
Russ reports it isn't working.
@@ -52,5 +52,5 @@ Python extension built around libgps.a.
This is a long-term wishlist item. It's going to be difficult, since there
is no GPS device class yet. Here are some IDs:
-BU-303 067b:2303 This IDs itself as a serial port
+BU-303 0x067b:0x2303 This IDs itself as a serial port
DeLorme Earthmate 0x1163:0x0100 This IDs itself as a HIDDEV.
diff --git a/gpsd.spec.in b/gpsd.spec.in
index 1399a8ac..956426aa 100644
--- a/gpsd.spec.in
+++ b/gpsd.spec.in
@@ -22,10 +22,12 @@ can share access to a GPS without contention or loss of data. Also,
gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier
to parse than NMEA 0183.
-After installing this RPM, gpsd will start up at boot time. You
-must make a symlink named /dev/gps to the serial or USB port that
+After installing this RPM, gpsd will try to start up at boot time.
+You must make a symlink named /dev/gps to the serial or USB port that
your GPS will plug in to. Normally this will be /dev/ttyUSB0 or
-/dev/ttyS0.
+/dev/ttyS0. The daemon will be quiescent when there are no clients
+asking for location information, and copes gracefully when the GPS is
+unplugged.
%package -n gpsd-devel
Summary: Client libraries in C and Python for talking to a running gpsd or GPS.
@@ -113,7 +115,7 @@ cp gps.py gpsd.py "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT"%{_libdir}/python${PYVERS}/site-packages
%changelog
* Wed Sep 8 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - @VERSION@-1
-- Only do one getdtablesize() call, otherwise we're doing several
+- Only do one getdtablesize() call, otherwise we do several
getrlimits() each poll cycle.
* Wed Sep 08 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.97-1