Re: MM 0.6.0 conflicts with USB GPS device?

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

On 06/07/2013 06:16 PM, poma wrote:
> > > Maybe in the very distant future, MM would not probe the serial
> > > > > device at all - instead I imagine a "serial detector" software
> > > > > component, that does all kind of probing and only sends signals on
> > > > > the DBus about the result ("modem found at /dev/ttyUSB0", "GPS
> > > > > found at /dev/ttyUSB1", "voltmeter found...").
> > >
> > > In MM git master, USB<->RS232 adaptors are never probed by default when
> > > detected, so there shouldn't be any direct conflict. Instead, they will
> > > only be probed to look for modems if Scan() is called explicitly.
> Are you saying that there is no more need for acrobatics[1] regarding
> analog modems and UPSes connected to the serial ports or via adapters.

That should be the case, yes.

Platform RS232 ports need to be explicitly tagged with
ID_MM_PLATFORM_DRIVER_PROBE to get automatically probed; and USB devices
listed in the greylist of USB<->Serial devices won't get automatically
probed by MM, only when Scan() is called.

-- 
Aleksander