[LinuxPPS] More on problem with the PPS Device

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Fri Jul 4 20:01:44 CEST 2008


Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> So what do we reply to the ntp bugzilla suggestion?
>> - 'never mind'?
>> - 'no can do'?
>> - .... ?
> 
> My opinion is that we should live untouched the current refclock
> drivers and manage the ldisc by using ppsldisc.
> 
> Bluetooth subsystem does something similar for years without problems,
> we can do the same I suppose. :)

The suggestion done as a respone to our request via the bug entry, i.e.
doing the ldisc thing in time_pps_create, what about that one for an answer?



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