[LinuxPPS] no rc.serial in F8

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:54:56PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> 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?

Currently I still to know if lp support works... I have no hardware to test it.

Meanwhile, the discussion about open() or not open() the parent device
for the PPS sources connected with the serial ports seems to me that
is better using 'cat' from userland. :)

Also I'm still waiting some considerations from Dave Jones from
RedHat. I think that if RedHat will adopt LinuxPPS we are a lot
possibilities for kernel inclusion, aren't we? ;)

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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