I suppose. But I've had so many more problems with gpsd (especially when e.g. USB enumerates devices randomly) that on outdoor robots I've switched to parsing NMEA strings and binary data over serial directly, specifically for reliability reasons.
Also I've had gpsd think some other non-GPS serial device was GPS, took up the port, and I got frustrated at its incompetency and apt-get uninstalled it.
Yeah, if gpsd sees anything with the right serial chip it'll assume it's a receiver. The whole thing pretty big pile of hacks, but it has utility nonetheless.
Also I've had gpsd think some other non-GPS serial device was GPS, took up the port, and I got frustrated at its incompetency and apt-get uninstalled it.