3 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Alexander Gordeev 717c033669 pps: add kernel consumer support
Add an optional feature of PPSAPI, kernel consumer support, which uses the
added hardpps() function.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2011-01-13 08:03:21 -08:00
Dave Jones f5a55efa14 pps.h needs <linux/types.h>
Found with make headers_check

/usr/include/linux/pps.h:52: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2009-07-29 19:10:36 -07:00
Rodolfo Giometti eae9d2ba0c LinuxPPS: core support
This patch adds the kernel side of the PPS support currently named
"LinuxPPS".

PPS means "pulse per second" and a PPS source is just a device which
provides a high precision signal each second so that an application can
use it to adjust system clock time.

Common use is the combination of the NTPD as userland program with a GPS
receiver as PPS source to obtain a wallclock-time with sub-millisecond
synchronisation to UTC.

To obtain this goal the userland programs shoud use the PPS API
specification (RFC 2783 - Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating
Systems, Version 1.0) which in part is implemented by this patch.  It
provides a set of chars devices, one per PPS source, which can be used to
get the time signal.  The RFC's functions can be implemented by accessing
to these char devices.

Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Kay Sievers <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Zippel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00