[LinuxPPS] PPS kernel discipline

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 25 17:33:45 CET 2009


Hal V. Engel wrote:
> In addition to basic PPS support PPSKIT had kernel discipline along with 
> nanokernel capabilities.  Unfortunately it never made it into the kernel.  
> Perhaps because it was too ambitious.   Current kernels are now nanosecond 
> capable and there is a possibility that basic PPS capabilities will be part of 
> the kernel sometime soon since the LinuxPPS patches were considered for 
> inclusion in 2.6.29 and there has been some work done to correct the issues 
> that prevented inclusion.  Since it appears that this needs to be added to the 
> kernel in small incremental steps perhaps the right thing to do would be to 
> have a separate patch set for enabling kernel discipline so that work on 
> getting basic PPS into the kernel can go forward unimpeded.

I agree.
2.6.30 it is?
Who can confirm?
Or when can we?



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