[LinuxPPS] pps0/1 have same major/minor as device mapper

Folkert van Heusden folkert at vanheusden.com
Sun Jan 13 23:48:46 CET 2008


It seems to be an atom driver problem as the nmea driver seems to work
just fine:
...
PPS event on source 0 at 1200264467.1791066
capture assert seq #43 for source 0
PPS event on source 0 at 1200264467.101800514
capture clear seq #43 for source 0
PPS event on source 0 at 1200264468.1795362
capture assert seq #44 for source 0
PPS event on source 0 at 1200264468.101825608
...

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:41:10PM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Ok it is definately a problem. Well, I think that it is :-)
> PPS with debugging, dmesg
> Linux version 2.6.23.pps-nodeb-debug (root at belle) (gcc version 4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Debian 4.2.2-4)) #1 SMP Sun Jan 13 22:01:33 CET 2008
> LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
> new PPS source serial1 at ID 0
> PPS_GETCAP: source 0
> PPS_SETPARAMS: source 0
> PPS_GETCAP: source 0
> PPS_SETPARAMS: source 0
> PPS_FETCH: source 0
> timeout 0.000000000
> PPS_FETCH: source 0
> timeout 0.000000000
> PPS_FETCH: source 0
> timeout 0.000000000
> PPS_FETCH: source 0
> timeout 0.000000000
> PPS_FETCH: source 0
> timeout 0.000000000
> PPS_FETCH: source 0
> timeout 0.000000000
> 
> belle:/home/folkert# lsof -n | grep ntp | grep dev
> ntpd      3866       root    0u      CHR                1,3                   488 /dev/null
> ntpd      3866       root    1u      CHR                1,3                   488 /dev/null
> ntpd      3866       root    2u      CHR                1,3                   488 /dev/null
> ntpd      3866       root    6u      CHR              254,0                  7093 /dev/pps0
> ntpd      3866       root    7u      CHR               4,66                  6649 /dev/ttyS2
> 
> belle:/usr/src/linux-2.6-2.6.23/Documentation/pps# ppstest /dev/pps0
> trying PPS source "/dev/pps0"
> found PPS source "/dev/pps0"
> ok, found 1 source(s), now start fetching data...
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Just to see if PPS worked at all I also tried ktimer(!!!):
> belle:/usr/src/linux-2.6-2.6.23/Documentation/pps# ./ppstest /dev/pps1
> trying PPS source "/dev/pps1"
> found PPS source "/dev/pps1"
> ok, found 1 source(s), now start fetching data...
> source 0 - assert 1200260433.344696101, sequence: 21 - clear  0.000000000, sequence: 0
> source 0 - assert 1200260434.344696568, sequence: 22 - clear  0.000000000, sequence: 0
> source 0 - assert 1200260435.344711165, sequence: 23 - clear  0.000000000, sequence: 0
> SO KTIMER WORKS
> 
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:11:55PM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> > Just finished installing a 2.6.23 kernel with the
> > ntp-pps-2.6.23-quater.diff patch. Now the /dev/pps0 device gets created!
> > 
> > There's one unfortunate thing:
> > belle:/sys/class/pps/pps0# ls -l /dev/* | grep 254
> > brw-rw---- 1 root disk    254,   0 2008-01-13 21:54 /dev/dm-0
> > brw-rw---- 1 root disk    254,   1 2008-01-13 21:54 /dev/dm-1
> > ...
> > crw-rw-r-- 1 root dialout 254,   0 2008-01-13 20:54 /dev/pps0
> > crw-rw-r-- 1 root dialout 254,   1 2008-01-13 20:54 /dev/pps1
> > Does that matter?
> > 
> > After 12 minutes of running still no change in ntp:
> >      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
> > ==============================================================================
> >  PPS(0)          .PPS.            0 l    -   16    0    0.000    0.000   0.001
> >  GENERIC(0)      .HBG.            0 l    -   64    0    0.000    0.000   0.001
> > -muur.intranet.v .DCFa.           1 u   55   64  356    0.129   -4.565   0.238
> > 
> > Yes, I ran setserial hardpps en ppsctl enable for the serial device
> > behind it (/dev/ttyS1).
> > 
> > Linux version 2.6.23pps-nodeb.pps-nodeb (root at belle) (gcc version 4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Debian 4.2.2-4)) #1 SMP Sun Jan 13 20:25:06 CET 2008
> > LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
> > new PPS source serial1 at ID 0
> > new PPS source parport0 at ID 1
> > parport_pc 00:07: PPS source #1 "/dev/lp0" added
> > parport_serial 0000:05:02.0: PPS support disabled because port "/dev/lp1" is in polling mode
> > 
> > /sys/class/pps/pps0:
> > total 0
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-01-13 20:56 assert
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-01-13 20:56 clear
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-01-13 20:56 dev
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2008-01-13 20:54 device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:05:02.0
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-01-13 20:56 echo
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-01-13 20:56 mode
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-01-13 20:56 name
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-01-13 20:56 path
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 2008-01-13 20:56 power
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2008-01-13 20:55 subsystem -> ../../../class/pps
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-01-13 20:55 uevent
> > 
> > 05:02.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01)
> >         Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 1P2S
> >         Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
> >         I/O ports at 8400 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 8800 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 8c00 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 9000 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 9400 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 9800 [size=16]
> > 
> > 
> > Folkert van Heusden
> > 
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> 
> Folkert van Heusden
> 
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