[LinuxPPS] Couple of questions

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Jon Schewe wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 16:46 +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> Jon Schewe wrote:
>>> When might I find that git is updated for kernel 2.6.18?  I tried
>>> merging using git and got lots of conflicts.
>> The patch does apply here on 2.6.18?
> I did the following:
> git clone
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.18.y.git 
> git checkout -b pps 
> git pull git://git.enneenne.com/linuxpps master

I think you are supposed to clone the whole thing from enneennne.com,
not mix with kernel.org stuff.
Make the diff from the ennennne copy and apply to your 2.6.18 kernel.
Works OK here.

>>> Also, are there plans to try and get PPS support into the main kernel? 
>> Ask Linus.
> It's my understanding that someone needs to ask first to try and get it
> pulled in.  Has someone even asked to have it added in?

Maybe there are others that have these details.