[LinuxPPS] testing PPS with ktimer

Ken MacLeod ken at bitsko.slc.ut.us
Tue Nov 9 17:49:05 CET 2010


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 2010-11-08 21:19, Ken MacLeod wrote:
>> Did I miss something obvious? or a patch?  should ktimer work in this
>> configuration?
>
> Isn't ktimer just for testing?
> ktimer is something different than ntpd's local clock.

Yes, ktimer is just for testing.  Like ktimer, the driver I will be
writing will only be a PPS source, not a time source.  I wanted to
test with ktimer first to confirm that a PPS-only source is already
supported by ntpd.



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