Subject: Re: new-API for DCD time stamps
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@iafrica.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/21/1998 10:14:16
> I think this addresses all the points so far. Three new ioctls:
> * one to set DCD timestamping on or off
> * one to get DCD timestamping on/off state
> * one to just fetch the most-recent timestamp.
> silently returns zero if timestamping is not enabled.
> should this return an error instead?
Instead of the #ifdef PPS_TRAILING_EDGE stuff being a compile-time
decision, how about making everything else use three three states: off /
on (rising edge) / on (falling edge).
--apb (Alan Barrett)