[LinuxPPS] serial driver commit?

Ben Gardiner bengardiner at nanometrics.ca
Fri Apr 23 15:08:28 CEST 2010


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 2010-04-23 08:17, Andrew D Kirch wrote:
>> Do we know when the serial driver will hit the mainstream kernel?  I'm
>> already talking to the GPSd people about supporting it, and have a NTP
>> ebuild ready for Gentoo/Funtoo with the proper switches built in to make
>> it work.

I have been using 2.6.34-rc3; it includes the serial line discipline
for 8250 UARTs and I'm happy to report that it works (for me / YMMV).
You can expect the driver to be released with kernel 2.6.34.

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Ben Gardiner
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