Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is quite often some confusion between -d usb: and > -d serial:ttyUSB0, and it is not necessarily obvious for the beginners > to understand the difference between both.
This is the same on other operating systems. In fact, to configure a USB device on Windows means assigning a more or less random serial port to your converter, and using that COM port in your screen reader. People have to learn the differences everywhere. > Would it be ok to have usb: also try serial:ttyUSB0? It looks like > it could help a lot of people to easily get started with brltty. I have to say, my gut reaction is that I am against such a change. It looks like it needlessly complicates things. There is a very simple way to achieve what you want, setting device to default to "usb:,serial:ttyUSB0". But if you look at it, would you really want to have that as a default? It looks very arbitrary. Besides, most serial drivers still dont support autodetection, so while you might be able reduce the amount of configuration on the users end a little bit, you will also create new problems, since "-b all" will not work with all serial devices... There is a third potential problem with that, some of our natively supported USB braille devices do in fact work like a USB-to-serial adaptor internally, and will be recognized by the Linux kernel. So if you open /dev/ttyUSB0 first, you will end up using the device via the kernel USB-to-serial adaptor driver, not via the native brltty USB implementation. While this probably still works, it looks like another source of potential bugs hard to find. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
