[LinuxPPS] unofficial Test patch for linux v2.6.30-rc6

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 09:36:07AM -0500, William S. Brasher wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:13:09PM -0500, William S. Brasher wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have installed kernel 2.6.30-rc6 patched with ntp-pps-v2.6.30-rc5 and 
> > > pps seems to be working fine with ntp-4.2.4p7 and glibc-2.9.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The first time I ran ppsldisc I got the following in the logs:
> > 
> > Did you got this error only once or each second?
> > 
> 
> This happened one time, the first time I ran ppsldisc.  The warning has 
> not repeated.  Shortly after I started ppsldisc I ran ppstest, and it 
> reported pulses arriving as expected.
> 
> Ntp did start at that time because I had not yet added a rule to udev to 
> link gps0 to /dev/ttyS0.
> 
> I also run setserial on the serial device, but I hadn't transfered a copy 
> to the machine at the time I was testing pps.  That means that most likely 
> ppsldisc was the first thing that requested access to the serial port.

Can you replicate the error condition?

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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