linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS - PPS support for Linux

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Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:17:50 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS - PPS support for Linux

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:04:18PM +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:

Hi Rodolfo,

 > here my last patch for PPS support.
 > 
 > Please, let me know if I have something to do for kernel inclusion.

Thanks for trying to get this merged, we've had a few users asking
us to support this in the Fedora kernel.

>From a quick look through, it doesn't look too bad.
A couple of obvious things that jumped out..

* The example program in the Documentation dir.
  There was some discussion recently about moving away 
  from doing this, and instead moving code to the samples/ dir
  (or including it in util-linux instead if applicable).

 > +    static struct pps_source_info_s pps_ktimer_info = {
 > +            name         : "ktimer",
 > +            path         : "",
 > +            mode         : PPS_CAPTUREASSERT | PPS_OFFSETASSERT | \
 > +			   PPS_ECHOASSERT | \
 > +                           PPS_CANWAIT | PPS_TSFMT_TSPEC,
 > +            echo         : pps_ktimer_echo,
 > +            owner        : THIS_MODULE,
 > +    };

  should be
    .name = "ktimer"
  etc..

 > +#include <linux/version.h>

This should be getting included automatically for you.

On the whole, asides from these (very) minor nits, quite a clean
submission compared to a lot of new driver submissions to lkml.
Might want to run it through scripts/checkpatch.pl too to see
if that picks up any more minor fluff.

	Dave

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