[LinuxPPS] Confused with ppstest.c on 2.6.31

[Luca Bertagnolio]

Thanks Hal, appreciate the clarification on the missing header file.

I have to say that my tests did not make me move forward at all,
and so, shame on me (!), for the very first time I installed FreeBSD
on a virtual machine, understood how it works with PPS_KERNEL
and all that jazz, and finally installed it on my very underpowered
Pentium MMX 200 MHz machine, together with the latest 247-RC
ntpd code.

I will want to move back that machine to Gentoo Linux someday,
so that I keep a coherent Linux distribution on all the machines,
but I had grown tired of all the work needed behind the scenes
on Linux, so the slow machine (which is the "official" ntp server)
now runs FreeBSD without problems, while I shall use another
machine for the LinuxPPS tests.

Will you still accept me in this group, now that I have betrayed
LinuxPPS in favour of the native PPS implementaion of FreeBSD?

:-D

Ciao, Luca

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 03:11, Hal V. Engel <hvengel at astound.net> wrote:
> Luca,
>
> I don't know if you figured this out or not but in case you didn't I ran into
> the same thing today while working with the 2.6.32 patch set.  The missing
> header (bitsperlong.h) is located in the kernel tree at
>
>   /usr/src/linux/arch/<you arch>/include/asm
>
> where <your arch> is x86 for most of us.  This needs to be available in
>
>   /usr/include/asm
>
> for the build to work.  This header file was added recently to the kernel tree.
> I suspect this happened with the 2.6.31 cycle but I have not checked to see if
> this is the case.  The newest linux-headers package in Gentoo is 2.6.30 and it
> is missing this file.