[LinuxPPS] Regarding RFC2783 modifications

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:

> I'd like submit my LinuxPPS implementation to Linux main tree but
> before I have to fix some issues about RFC specifications.
> 
> The RFC 2783 says that «pps_handle_t type is an opaque scalar type
> used to represent a PPS source within the API» but in my
> implementation I intentionally want to separate the concept of file
> descriptor to the concept of the PPS source since some devices do not
> have such association (some devices are directly connected to a
> dedicated interrupt line for example), and to support this I need a
> struct as "pps_handle_t".
> 
> If the GPS receiver is connected to a serial line then everything
> works well but, if this is not true, we have no "filedes" to pass to
> the function time_pps_create(). That's why I also added a new function
> time_pps_findsource() in order to find a generic PPS source (note that
> this function is protected by the PPS_HAVE_FINDSOURCE define).
> 
> So, my opinion is that RFC 2783 should say that «pps_handle_t type is
> an opaque __variable__ used to represent a PPS source within the API»
> and programs should not access to it directly due its opacity.
> 
> I'd like to know if this is the right place to discuss about this
> topic or if I should post my message elsewhere.

I'd like to know if the questions above are off-topic on this list
since I still received no answers. :'(

If they are so, please suggest to me the right place where I should
send them.

Regards,

Rodolfo

-- 

GNU/Linux Solutions                  e-mail:    giometti at enneenne.com
Linux Device Driver                             giometti at gnudd.com
Embedded Systems                     		giometti at linux.it
UNIX programming                     phone:     +39 349 2432127