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authorRodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>2009-06-17 16:28:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-18 13:04:04 -0700
commiteae9d2ba0cfc27a2ad9765f23efb98fb80d80234 (patch)
treef4be40ca528b2f23f97fa9cb6ebe91b8d6696d5b /drivers/pps/Kconfig
parent8820f27ad9a5ad2a62cdcdf425d7921c31831800 (diff)
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 <giometti@linux.it> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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+#
+# PPS support configuration
+#
+
+menu "PPS support"
+
+config PPS
+ tristate "PPS support"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---help---
+ PPS (Pulse Per Second) is a special pulse provided by some GPS
+ antennae. Userland can use it to get a high-precision time
+ reference.
+
+ Some antennae's PPS signals are connected with the CD (Carrier
+ Detect) pin of the serial line they use to communicate with the
+ host. In this case use the SERIAL_LINE client support.
+
+ Some antennae's PPS signals are connected with some special host
+ inputs so you have to enable the corresponding client support.
+
+ To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
+ will be called pps_core.ko.
+
+config PPS_DEBUG
+ bool "PPS debugging messages"
+ depends on PPS
+ help
+ Say Y here if you want the PPS support to produce a bunch of debug
+ messages to the system log. Select this if you are having a
+ problem with PPS support and want to see more of what is going on.
+
+endmenu