[LinuxPPS] More on problem with the PPS Device

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 2 17:16:21 CEST 2008


Reg Clemens wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:32:04PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>> clemens at dwf.com wrote:
>>>>> 2, if possible.
>>>>>
>>>> I commented on this in a previous note.
>>>> time_pps_create is called with the FILE DESCRIPTOR of the PPS device.
>>>> It knows nothing about the serial device.
>> The first call is made with the serial device's fd.
>>
> That cant be true, otherwise the PPSAPI would not know what device to
> look for time stamps on.  The way it knows about /dev/pps{n} is thru it
> being passed here.

So what do we reply to the ntp bugzilla suggestion?



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