[LinuxPPS] PPS kernel discipline

[Thorsten Mühlfelder]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:27:59 -0700
"Hal V. Engel" <hvengel at astound.net> wrote:

> "This (meaning kernel discipline) is advised for newer machines in the Pentium 
> class."  Pentium machines were originally only 100MHz hardware so any modern 
> hardware, including any recent VIA hardware, is going to be WAY faster.

Right, Pentium started at 60 MHz ;-)

> Kernel discipline has been talked about on the list before.  It is an optional 
> part of the specification and is currently not part of LinuxPPS.  Right now I 
> think the goal is to get the basic PPS stuff into the kernel and then to work 
> at adding enhancements like kernel discipline.

Thanks for explanation. 

> 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.

Sounds like a reasonable suggestion to me.

Greetings
Thorsten