[LinuxPPS] no rc.serial in F8

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Wed Nov 21 15:54:56 CET 2007


Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:07:26PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
>>>>> accordingly a special configuration file for theh PPS subsystem
>>>>> (i.e. /etc/pps.conf).
>>>> Once LinuxPPS is in the kernel and mainstream this could be accomplished
>>>> in the ntpd startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ ?
>>> This is relative to the userland, so even if LinuxPPS will go into
>>> kernel mainstream I dubt it will be done...
>> It would be the most logical place to do so if Linux has LinuxPPS...
>> What is the satus of getting LinuxPPS into the kernel?
> 
> Currently I'm waiting some feedbacks from you in order to be sure that
> everything is ok. After that I'll send the patch to the LKML, Andrew
> Morton and David Woodhouse.

LinuxPPS works OK as far as I can see, but of course I am no guru. i
just assisted a tiny bit for this NMEA patch. (thank YOU for your part
there)

What else could be checked?

Maybe others have last minute remarks?



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