From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxpps@ml.enneenne.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS: Pulse per Second support for Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:14:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DC6FD6.4040005@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070221120426.GJ4641@enneenne.com>
Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
>
> The problem is that sometimes you cannot have a filedescriptor at
> all. Think about a PPS source connected with a CPU's GPIO pin. You
> have no filedes to use and defining one just for a PPS source or for a
> class of PPS sources, I think, is a non sense.
>
If you have a kernel driver at all, then it makes perfect sense. If you
don't have a kernel driver at all, then it's irrelevant to the
linux-kernel discussion.
> RFC simply doesn't consider the fact that you can have a PPS source
> __without__ a filedes connected with, and a single filedes is
> considered __always__ connected with a single PPS source.
That's the Unix way.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-16 18:52 [PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS: Pulse per Second support for Linux Rodolfo Giometti
2007-02-16 19:12 ` Russell King
2007-02-16 20:43 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-02-16 20:51 ` Russell King
2007-02-16 21:03 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-02-16 19:56 ` Jan Dittmer
2007-02-16 20:57 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-02-16 21:19 ` Jan Dittmer
2007-02-18 22:43 ` LinuxPPS: fixes Rodolfo Giometti
2007-02-20 2:56 ` [PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS: Pulse per Second support for Linux H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-21 12:04 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-02-21 16:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-02-22 8:51 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-02-21 23:51 ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-22 9:00 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-02-21 10:16 ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-22 9:59 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-13 21:38 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-13 22:48 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-14 9:31 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-14 13:19 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-14 14:06 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-14 14:12 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-14 14:27 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-14 14:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-14 14:52 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-14 15:37 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-14 15:47 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-14 20:57 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-15 10:29 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-15 15:18 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-15 15:37 ` Rodolfo Giometti
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-21 7:41 Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-21 8:05 ` Jon K Hellan
2007-03-21 8:08 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-03-21 15:34 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-05-02 19:33 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-05-02 21:06 ` john stultz
2007-05-03 10:03 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-05-10 7:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-10 9:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-10 10:58 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-05-10 11:01 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 11:45 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-05-10 11:51 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 11:54 ` David Miller
2007-05-12 5:59 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-05-12 6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-12 7:08 ` Greg KH
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