[LinuxPPS] More on problem with the PPS Device

[clemens at dwf.com]

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:32:04PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> > clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> > >> 2, if possible.
> > >>
> > > I commented on this in a previous note.
> > > time_pps_create is called with the FILE DESCRIPTOR of the PPS device.
> > > It knows nothing about the serial device.
> 
> The first call is made with the serial device's fd.
> 
That cant be true, otherwise the PPSAPI would not know what device to
look for time stamps on.  The way it knows about /dev/pps{n} is thru it
being passed here.

-- 
                                        Reg.Clemens
                                        reg at dwf.com

[[ there appears to be some incorrect code in some of the ntp drivers that
depends on these two devices being the same in other UNIX distributions ]]