[LinuxPPS] Which patch to use?
Udo van den Heuvel
udovdh at xs4all.nl
Sun May 11 08:18:55 CEST 2008
Jordan Hayes wrote:
>>> I'm running stock Debian with a 2.6.18 kernel.
>>
>> Please upgrade. 2.6.25.x?
>
> "apt-get upgrade" doesn't change this :-)
lynx www.kernel.org
>> Use ppsctl (see the Documentation dir for pps) or a patched setserial
>> (see the wiki) to enable PPS.
>
> Ok, that seems to work, but:
>
> # ./ppstest /dev/pps0
> trying PPS source "/dev/pps0"
> found PPS source "/dev/pps0"
> ok, found 1 source(s), now start fetching data...
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
> time_pps_fetch() error -1 (Connection timed out)
>
> But you're saying I should use -ter instead of the other patch?
-ter is the most recent one, yes.
> Ok, the compile takes about 7 hours on my machine ...
7!?
A p60 with 32 megs?
At least it is a partial compile since not all files change.
Just remove the older patch and then apply -ter.
patch -p1 -R < ../file-old.patch
and then
patch -p1 < ../file-ter.patch
or similar.
Udo
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