[LinuxPPS] LinuxPPS - odd behaviour. (Please Read)

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:49:12PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> >> The fact that I do get assert/clears doesn't mean the port is opened OK?
> >> I thought that my simple 'open' would take over what the 'cat' normally
> >> does.
> > 
> > Using 'cat' or open() is just the same. If you get assert/clear events
> > means that the serial port is open()ed, since only with the open() the
> > IRQ line of the serial port is registered into the system.
> 
> So why didn't it work?

I don't know... did you get interrupts on your serial port and can you
see the assert/clear events? If so LinuxPPS does its job and the
problem maybe into NTPD.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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