On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:06:23PM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > Some fixes up... see the git log for further info.
I looked at those, and they didn't sound important. I will grab it anyhow just for completeness. > Unluckely you need a patched version of setserial (see the patch on my > site). On the same site you can find a precompiled version which I use > for my tests, maybe it works for you... OK, that explains why it wasn't in setserial's code. > This is a specific problem of NTPD not of LinuxPPS itself. I wrote > some letters about this problem into NTP list but with no results. > > The sysadm shoulkd use setserial to enable a serial port to become a > PPS source and then NTPD should verify if such PPS source exists > (using time_pps_findpath() & Co.). Well I think I may just write a small tool to do the ioctl to enable it so I don't need the full setserial around. > Did you read this example on the wiki? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linuxpps$ cat /sys/class/pps/01/name > serial1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linuxpps$ cat /sys/class/pps/01/path > /dev/ttyS1 > giometti at jeeg:~/linuxpps/test$ sudo ln -sf /dev/ttyS1 /dev/gps0 > giometti at jeeg:~/linuxpps/test$ sudo ./ppstest /dev/gps0 > found PPS source #2 "serial1" on "/dev/ttyS1" > giometti at jeeg:~/linuxpps/test$ sudo ln -sf ktimer /dev/gps0 > giometti at jeeg:~/linuxpps/test$ sudo ./ppstest /dev/gps0 > found PPS source #0 "ktimer" on "" > > it doesn't work for you? I will have to try that again to be sure. I may have got myself confused when I first tried it. One symlink I can deal with (that's ntpd sillyness after all). -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
