[LinuxPPS] ntpd with nmea.patch fails to compile if HAVE_PPSAPI is not defined

William S. Brasher billb958 at door.net
Wed Jun 17 21:45:31 CEST 2009


This bit of code added by nmea.patch:

pps_error:
        /* No luck, no PPS unit available! */
        up->handle = -1;

refers to up->handle which is in the struct only if HAVE_PPSAPI is 
defined.  It would seem that up->handle should be wrapped in the #ifdef 
HAVE_PPSAPI.


The attached patch is what I applied to ntpd and the code compiled with 
and without HAVE_PPSAPI defined.  The binaries seem to work, too.
-------------- next part --------------
diff -Naur ntp-4.2.4p7.org/ntpd/refclock_nmea.c ntp-4.2.4p7/ntpd/refclock_nmea.c
--- ntp-4.2.4p7.org/ntpd/refclock_nmea.c	2009-03-30 06:03:18.000000000 -0500
+++ ntp-4.2.4p7/ntpd/refclock_nmea.c	2009-06-14 14:42:21.000000000 -0500
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 # define DEVICE "COM%d:" 	/* COM 1 - 3 supported */
 #else
 # define DEVICE	"/dev/gps%d"	/* name of radio device */
+# define DEVICEPPS "/dev/pps%d" /* name of alternate PPS radio device */
 #endif
 #define	SPEED232	B4800	/* uart speed (4800 bps) */
 #define	PRECISION	(-9)	/* precision assumed (about 2 ms) */
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@
 #define RANGEGATE	500000	/* range gate (ns) */
 
 #define LENNMEA		75	/* min timecode length */
+#define LENPPS		PPS_MAX_NAME_LEN
 
 /*
  * Tables to compute the ddd of year form icky dd/mm timecode. Viva la
@@ -231,13 +233,25 @@
 	 * Start the PPSAPI interface if it is there. Default to use
 	 * the assert edge and do not enable the kernel hardpps.
 	 */
-	if (time_pps_create(fd, &up->handle) < 0) {
-		up->handle = 0;
-		msyslog(LOG_ERR,
-		    "refclock_nmea: time_pps_create failed: %m");
-		return (1);
+	msyslog(LOG_ERR, "refclock_nmea: found GPS source \"%s\"", device);
+	if (time_pps_create(pp->io.fd, &up->handle) < 0) {
+		/* Try the alternate PPS device */
+                (void) sprintf(device, DEVICEPPS, unit);
+		msyslog(LOG_ERR, "refclock_nmea: try alternate PPS device \"%s\"", device);
+                fd = open(device, O_RDWR);
+                if (fd < 0)
+                	goto pps_error;
+		if (time_pps_create(fd, &up->handle) < 0)
+               		goto pps_error;
 	}
+	else (void) sprintf(device, DEVICE, unit); /* just rebuild device's name */
+	msyslog(LOG_INFO, "refclock_nmea: found PPS source \"%s\"", device);
 	return(nmea_ppsapi(peer, 0, 0));
+
+pps_error:
+        /* No luck, no PPS unit available! */
+        up->handle = -1;
+        msyslog(LOG_ERR, "refclock_nmea: no PPS devices found at " DEVICE " nor " DEVICEPPS ": %m", unit, unit);
 #else
 	return (1);
 #endif /* HAVE_PPSAPI */
@@ -258,7 +272,7 @@
 	pp = peer->procptr;
 	up = (struct nmeaunit *)pp->unitptr;
 #ifdef HAVE_PPSAPI
-	if (up->handle != 0)
+	if (up)
 		time_pps_destroy(up->handle);
 #endif /* HAVE_PPSAPI */
 	io_closeclock(&pp->io);
@@ -367,7 +381,7 @@
 	/*
 	 * Convert the timespec nanoseconds field to ntp l_fp units.
 	 */ 
-	if (up->handle == 0)
+	if (up->handle == -1)
 		return (0);
 	timeout.tv_sec = 0;
 	timeout.tv_nsec = 0;


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