Subject: Re: TIOCDCDTIMESTAMP patch for PPS support (again)
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/20/1998 16:03:58
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:47:54 -0700 (PDT)
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> In five days it'll be a month since I posted the TIODCDTIMESTAMP patch
> to com.c. Bill Studenmund pointed out the patch would catch both edges
> of the once-per-second, on-the second pulse. I've fixed that in my own tree.
>
> Since no-one has objected or offreed comment, and since Charles Hannum
> has never bothered to offer any comment whatsoever on the proposal to
> add PPS support (as opposed to other ideas for supporting obsolete
> clocks), I propose to commit the TIODCDTIMESTAMP patch once the month
> is up.
I strongly object to your doing so. The last patch you posted had
what appeared to be a serious bug, and that absolutely has to be
fixed first.
It also seems extremely silly to not update all of the serial drivers.
"All the world it not a PC."
Please post your current diff.
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