Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection
Jason White, le Wed 23 May 2012 20:43:39 +1000, a écrit :
> Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > BRLTTY should be installable by default without giving anyone trouble,
> > thats one of your really big goals for long term.
>
> That's fine, but meanwhile the only solution is not to install it.
>
> In general, I don't think BRLTTY should be installed unless the user
> explicitly installs the package or uses braille during the Debian
> installation.
In general, we do think that BRLTTY should be installed by default. Just
like we have drivers for USB keyboards installed by default. You
shouldn't have to ask the administrator to install some additional
software before being able to use a machine.
> The issue isn't just the current problem under discussion, but also the
> probing of serial ports (although I suppose that can be turned off if it
> happens by default).
Yes, we only want to auto probe safe devices, i.e. USB devices which
known-to-be-unique IDs.
Samuel
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