Re: [gpsd-dev] gpsd:ERROR: too many devices on command line

[Eric S. Raymond]

Roy Barkas <address@hidden>:
> *For quite a while I've been starting gpsd as:*
> 
> sudo /usr/local/sbin/gpsd -b -D 1 -F /tmp/gpsd.sock
> udp://localhost:46001 udp://localhost:46002 udp://localhost:46003
> udp://localhost:46004 udp://localhost:46005"
> 
> Seemed to work fine with 3.11 (although I can't swear with hand upon
> heart that messages were being received and processed from the last
> device)
> 
> Upgrading to 3.14, and using the same startup line, I now get:
> 
> gpsd:ERROR: too many devices on command line
> 
> *Have I hit a freshly implemented limit?  *
> 
> 
> *If I remove one of the devices from the startup command then gpsd
> starts ok with no complaints*

The limit is old.  The message is new.  Unless you build with
a larger limit (build option max_devices) it's 4.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>