[LinuxPPS] PPS/ntpd fails on fresh startup

[Luca Bertagnolio]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Rodolfo Giometti
<giometti at enneenne.com> wrote:
> Ok, I suppose one of these functions may change the LDISC. Can you
> please verify the current LDISC when the system is not functional?
>
> LinuxPPS is 18.

hmmm... can you give me any hint as to I can "verify the current LDISC" on my
system, Rodolfo?

> If so I suppose this code may help us in solving our LDISC problem. We
> only have to find a suitable mode to tell NTPD to set N_PPS ldisc
> instead of the wrong one...

Good to know that we're starting to see light at the end of the
tunnel.  Still, I
dont' quite understand why running ntpd the first time doesn't work, and the
second one does...

--L