[LinuxPPS] More on problem with the PPS Device

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:01:44PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> 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?

I think we should drop this solution.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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