[LinuxPPS] LinuxPPS, kernel 4.4, ntpd 4.2.8

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Wed Jan 11 17:24:22 CET 2017


On 10-01-17 20:14, Joachim Fabini wrote:
> Can someone familiar with LinuxPPS and/or ntp confirm this diagnosis? Or
> disprove it? This means that ntp 4.2.8 _could_ provide PPS functionality
> in theory but in practice it does NOT because a developer has decided
> (for whatever reason that is not known to me) to remove a conditional.

If I understand your explanation correctly when can patch the
conditional back in and then we should see a functional 4.2.8.

If you can test that you can prove that just the conditional is the
issue here.

My Fedora 24 is at 4.2.6 still. Rawhide has ntp 4.2.8.

Kind regards,
Udo




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