[LinuxPPS] running ppstest

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:30:47PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> > 	giometti at zaigor:~/linux/kernel/Documentation/pps$ ls -l /dev/pps*
> > 	crw-rw-r-- 1 root dialout 253, 0 Aug  8 18:58 /dev/pps0
> > 	crw-rw-r-- 1 root dialout 253, 1 Aug  8 18:58 /dev/pps1
> > 
> > Now I do not have these devices and also:
> > 	belle:/home/folkert# ls -l /dev | grep 253
> > 	crw-rw---- 1 root root    253,   0 2008-01-13 16:12 usbdev1.1_ep00
> > 	crw-rw---- 1 root root    253,   1 2008-01-13 16:12 usbdev1.1_ep81
> > 	crw-rw---- 1 root root    253,   2 2008-01-13 16:12 usbdev2.1_ep00
> > 	...
> > As you can see those major/minors are taken by usb devices - is the pps
> > patch udev-aware?
> 
> What do you mean?
> udev runs on my Epia without conflict.
> I also have those usb `devices`.
> 
> Ovver here I have:
> 
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 254, 0 2007-12-02 11:22 /dev/pps0
> 
> 254...
> 
> Can Rodolfo explain this mixup?

Major numbers as just ID numbers, I never said that LinuxPPS's devices
must have ID 253... if you use udev then it will choose a major for
you otherwise you must choose an unused one to assign to PPS
devices. That's all. :)

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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