Bug 28644

Summary:	Device.Stop() stops all GPS connections
Product:	Gypsy	Reporter:	Ross Burton <ross>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Ross Burton <ross>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Ross Burton 2010-06-21 04:12:28 UTC

Say I have two gypsy clients, a status monitor and a map.  They both get the device and call Start() on startup, and Stop() on exit.  This seems reasonable.

However, if I quit one and leave the other running, the device has been stopped. The start/stop calls should manipulate a counter, so the device is only stopped when there is nobody listening.

Comment 1 Tim Savage 2010-06-30 08:25:40 UTC

After thinking about this issue there is one particular use case that needs to be considered. An application wishes to validly stop a device to change configuration i.e to switch the baud rate on a serial device from 4800 to 9600, any reference counting would not allow this to happen.

If an application wishes to stop the device to change configuration should there be a "Restart" method that allows the device to be stopped and started to handle configuration changes?

Comment 2 Ross Burton 2010-06-30 09:01:20 UTC

In a sane world applications wouldn't be configuring gypsy, but the GPS settings would be configuring gypsy.

Of course this isn't possible at the moment but I'd like to make it so. :)  GSettings makes it a lot easier from a platform point of view.

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