serial port woes, was Re: [LinuxPPS] ntpd

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:07:40PM -0700, gnu not unix wrote:
> 
> I had problems with the /proc/pps/sources having duplicate
> entries for serial ports, when I had enabled BIOS pnp 
> in the kernel config. Once I removed BIOS pnp (but left
> pnp and isapnp "bare" support) in the config, the /proc/pps/sources
> reported the correct number of devices, and the patch
> worked with ntpd.

I see. However I think the problem is in 8250.c where we register PPS
sources. I'm quite sure we should move the code in order to register
PPS sources into serial_core.c...

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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