[BRLTTY] Default braille driver and device.

[Yannick PLASSIARD]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:28:03AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
 listers,
	I think autodectection is a good idea if wedrivers are built externally. But, if we use --with-braille-driver=xx , maybe this driver should be prefered (it's not needed for the user to waste time waitinj for the auto-detection process to complete). 
> Now that release 3.8 of BRLTTY is under development, I'd like to get back to
> the topic of changing the default braille driver and device.
> 
> What about changing the default braille driver to "auto", i.e. that
> autodetection be performed? If so, what about if one or more drivers are built
> in (configured with --with-braille-driver=)? Should the autodetection be then
> limited to those drivers which are built in, or should full autodetection still
> be performed?
> 
> What about changing the default braille device to "usb:"? I like this because
> it'd mean that BRLTTY would no longer ever do unsolicited I/O on an unexpected
> device. What if the user specifies a braille driver which only supports serial
> devices? Should some special accommodation be made for this case, or, to err on
> the side of safety from an I/O perspective, should the default device still be
> "usb:" so that the user must specify the serial device which is to be used?
> 
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