[LinuxPPS] Status: Still having problems /dev/lp0 + others.

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:40:55AM -0600, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> Im about to quit for this evening, but thought Id put out one more note
> before quiting for the night.
> 
> 1) I still do not see any events on /dev/lp0 either with ntpd nor with
> ppstest.  Either this is broken, or I need to turn something on, or
> load modules in some magic order.
> 
> Has anyone else tried this code?
> Has anyone had any success?

Someone has tested this code in the past, please do a search into this
mail list.

> 2) In my quest to be able to compile ntpd with only userspace include
> files, I noted previously that we need
>     timepps.h
> in userspace.  It in turn calls
>     pps.h
> so it needs to be in userspace too.

No. I already explained why.

> And finally, the #define NETLINK_PPSAPI has been inserted in
> the Kernel version of
>     linux/netlink.h
> but its needed in the userspace version  of that routine too.

See the wiki:

   http://wiki.enneenne.com/index.php/LinuxPPS_support#The_userland_tools

> I have no idea how one goes about getting these userspace routines
> installed/updated.

The same as above.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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