[LinuxPPS] status of 2.6.29 & pps

[Hal V. Engel]

On Tuesday 28 April 2009 09:05:46 am Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> >>> I have applied ntp-pps-2.6.28-rc6-ter.diff to linux-2.6.29 and fixed
> >>> the hunks that failed. Here is the resulting patch, which now applies
> >>> cleanly:
> >>> http://anbadeol.googlepages.com/linux-2.6.29-pps-5.3.5.patch.gz
> >
> > Did the same thing for 2.6.30-rc3:
> > http://vanheusden.com/misc/linux-2.6.30-rc3-pps-5.3.5.patch.bz2
> > not tested yet, still compiling.
>
> Please keep us updated, we need this to bridge the gap until
> a) Rodolfo reappears
> or
> b) kernel inclusion happens
>
> should we ask on linux-kernel for a status update?

I don't think this would do any good since the last activity I saw on the 
kernel side was that they were waiting for the issues that were uncovered 
during the 2.6.28 cycle to be resolved.  

There was a long list of mostly very small things that needed to be done.  
This included creating patches to move the ppsldisc and ppstest apps over to 
util-linux and other clean up work.  I know that some (perhaps most or all?) 
of the clean up work had been done but I do not recall anyone doing the util-
linux changes.  I have not looked at the newest patches created by Folkert* 
yet to check but do these include everything that was requested by the kernel 
folks during the last cycle?

Hal

* I will be testing the 2.6.29 patch set along with an rt patched kernel 
either late this week or early next week.