[LinuxPPS] LinuxPPS new functionalities

[Udo van den Heuvel]

On 2010-02-18 18:46, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
>> In the past some people here noticed issues that pps would stop and/or
>> that ldattach would not work well enough.
>> ppsldisc is depreciated and ldattach is the preferred tool.
>> I'd gladly use it if it would work 100%. (there was a bug that I can not
>> put my finger on, ldattach just opens the serial port with the right
>> line discipline and yet it differs from ppsldisc in behaviour)
>>
> One reason for my not using ldattach, is not knowing where to find it.
> Im sure I could scan all of last year's postings on this list,- but have never 
> been  that interested.

util-linux-ng-2.16.2-5.fc12.x86_64 has ldattach on my systems.

> What we REALLY need is to put both ppsldisc.c and ldattach.c in the 'tools'
> directory 

One of the kernel maintainers suggested that we avoid another tool
(ldattach can take ppsldisc's place and is already distributed).

Udo