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| author | Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> | 2015-02-22 12:37:33 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> | 2015-02-22 12:37:33 -0500 |
| commit | ddc394ed7207c7468eab62e6aecfdef36694f4a8 (patch) | |
| tree | ae82de61308f461d9a918fe79be66c5e0fcf3920 /www/upstream-bugs.html | |
| parent | d02553daed179c3feb798bf615efcc0011acbc12 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-ddc394ed7207c7468eab62e6aecfdef36694f4a8.tar.gz | |
Tweak wording of osx-pl2303 entry.
Avoid the logical fallacy that correlation implies definitive bug
location (but agree that evidence points to osx-pl2303 being buggy).
Diffstat (limited to 'www/upstream-bugs.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | www/upstream-bugs.html | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/www/upstream-bugs.html b/www/upstream-bugs.html index 886280d5..efae632a 100644 --- a/www/upstream-bugs.html +++ b/www/upstream-bugs.html @@ -101,9 +101,12 @@ maintainer, we've tried to kick these upstream.</p> <p>The osx-pl2303 driver appears not to work, at least under 10.9. Specifically, the combination of gpsd, OS X, osx-pl2303, and a GR601-W usually fails. With the official Prolific drivers, this - receiver works reliably. The source code of this driver no longer - appears to be available. Therefore we recommend against using the - osx-pl2303 driver and consider it unsupported</p> + receiver works reliably. The source code of this driver no longer + appears to be available. While the facts so far do not prove that + the bug is in the osx-pl2303 driver, the evidence points that way, + and no one has dug in enough to figure out what's wrong. Therefore + we recommend against using the osx-pl2303 driver and consider it + unsupported</p> <p>Previously, there were problems with the osx-pl2303 driver that caused select not to return even when input was available. It is |