[LinuxPPS] Which patch to use?

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Sun May 11 05:57:39 CEST 2008


Jordan Hayes wrote:
> I'm running stock Debian with a 2.6.18 kernel.  

Please upgrade. 2.6.25.x?

> I see there are patches up to 2.6.24 ... but there are three of them: 
> null, bis, and ter.  Which one do I use?  

The most recent one.

-ter

> It says "Once you have chosen a patch" which at least leads me to 
> believe that I only need one; what do 'ter' and 'bis' mean?

-three, -two

> It feels close, but am I not using the right patch?

Use ppsctl (see the Documentation dir for pps) or a patched setserial
(see the wiki) to enable PPS.

Udo



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