[LinuxPPS] another refclock_nmea patch ([Bug 610] Generic NMEA GPS Receiver driver w/ PPS expects PPS after NMEA data)

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
>>>> atom refclock code: (from atom_start)
>> (...)
>>>> So a device IS opened?!
>>> You open the PPS device which is not the serial port, right? You do an
>>> open() on /dev/pps*, don't you?
>> For atom refclock we open the /dev/ppsX, yes.
>> It is a serial port here.
> 
> Do you mean /dev/ppsX is a symlink to /dev/ttySX?

It was in the old days.
Now it is a LinuxPPS device.

Regardless: why does atom on it's own not work?
Why is `cat` needed? Or NMEA?


Udo