From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754715AbZBIKRs (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 05:17:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752452AbZBIKRi (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 05:17:38 -0500 Received: from 81-174-11-161.static.ngi.it ([81.174.11.161]:44970 "EHLO mail.enneenne.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752384AbZBIKRi (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 05:17:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:17:30 +0100 From: Rodolfo Giometti To: George Spelvin Cc: udovdh@xs4all.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, LinuxPPS@ml.enneenne.com Message-ID: <20090209101730.GM7975@enneenne.com> Mail-Followup-To: George Spelvin , udovdh@xs4all.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, LinuxPPS@ml.enneenne.com References: <20090206142231.22425.qmail@science.horizon.com> <20090206143703.GC7975@enneenne.com> <20090206144752.5195.qmail@science.horizon.com> <20090206145553.GD7975@enneenne.com> <20090206145932.10638.qmail@science.horizon.com> <20090206152156.GE7975@enneenne.com> <20090206225326.14093.qmail@science.horizon.com> <20090208004914.21448.qmail@science.horizon.com> <498E712F.7080206@xs4all.nl> <20090208060938.25184.qmail@science.horizon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090208060938.25184.qmail@science.horizon.com> Organization: GNU/Linux Device Drivers, Embedded Systems and Courses X-PGP-Key: gpg --keyserver keyserver.linux.it --recv-keys D25A5633 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.32.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: giometti@enneenne.com Subject: Re: [LinuxPPS] LinuxPPS kernel interface X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:23:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.enneenne.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:09:38AM -0500, George Spelvin wrote: > Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > > Interesting ideas, thanks for the input. > > > > I think I must mention that we also must strive for kernel inclusion. > > Kernel inclusion will broaden our exposure. > > This means we have to get rid of the issues blocking inclusion. > > (see a query like http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&w=2&r=1&s=pps&q=b for > > related posts) > > > > What do you think? > > I agree, that's the goal. But it's also important to get the > interface right, preferably before publishing it to world+dog. > > And then there are little things like the fact that an important header > file like timepps.h probably shouldn't live in Documentation/pps... > > For example, here's a patch, on top of the previous series, that > gets rid of the timeout argument to PPS_FETCH: Please, note that such file is _not_ into kernel proposed patch. First we should get inclusion of core code, then we can discuss about userland interface and other related stuff. Ciao, Rodolfo -- GNU/Linux Solutions e-mail: giometti@enneenne.com Linux Device Driver giometti@linux.it Embedded Systems phone: +39 349 2432127 UNIX programming skype: rodolfo.giometti