[LinuxPPS] bug in kernel config

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:40:39AM -0600, Jon Schewe wrote:
> I've found when I do make menuconfig and add in PPS support I'm given
> the option of building PPS as a module.  This doesn't work as no module
> appears to be created and I'm unable to sync anything as the 8250 serial
> support is not even an option at this point.  If I change PPS to be
> built directly into the kernel, I'm then able to choose 8250 serial
> support and everything works just fine.  Could this change be made for
> the next rev?

If you choose PPS as a module the file pps_core.ko will be created,
and in this case you cannot enable serial support until you select
serial core as a module too.

Here what you can find into drivers/pps/clients/Kconfig:

   config PPS_CLIENT_UART
           bool "UART serial support"
           depends on PPS && SERIAL_CORE && \
                           ! ( PPS = m && SERIAL_CORE = y ) && EXPERIMENTAL

This is necessary since is not possible to load a serial driver as a
module if pps_core is not already loaded into kernel, and someone may
needs serial support but not the PPS one.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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