linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS: Pulse per Second support for Linux

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Message-Id: <200702220051.49106.zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:51:48 +0100
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxpps@...enneenne.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS: Pulse per Second support for Linux

Hi,

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:04, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:

> 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 not entirely true. It doesn't say that pps_handle_t must be a file 
descriptor and it leaves the option for the argument to time_pps_create() not 
to be a file descriptor as well.

bye, Roman
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