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Rodolfo Giometti eae9d2ba0c 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>
2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
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accessibility
acpi
amba
ata
atm
auxdisplay
base Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
block Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2009-06-16 12:57:37 -07:00
bluetooth
cdrom
char kexec: sysrq: simplify sysrq-c handler 2009-06-18 13:03:59 -07:00
clocksource time: move PIT_TICK_RATE to linux/timex.h 2009-06-16 19:47:27 -07:00
connector
cpufreq
cpuidle
crypto
dca
dio
dma DMA: TXx9 Soc DMA Controller driver 2009-06-17 11:06:25 +01:00
edac edac: Kconfig: fix the meaning of EDAC abbreviation 2009-06-18 13:03:57 -07:00
eisa Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
firewire Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2009-06-16 14:29:46 -07:00
firmware Pull for-2.6.31 into release 2009-06-17 09:35:24 -07:00
gpio gpio: pca953x: Add support for PCA9556 2009-06-18 13:03:44 -07:00
gpu drm/radeon/kms: remove the _DRM_DRIVER from the KMS paths. 2009-06-17 09:45:46 -07:00
hid
hwmon Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
i2c i2c-stu300: Make driver depend on MACH_U300 2009-06-16 22:42:17 +01:00
ide
idle
ieee1394 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck 2009-06-16 13:09:51 -07:00
ieee802154
infiniband
input Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
isdn
leds
lguest
macintosh
mca
md Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2009-06-16 12:57:37 -07:00
media Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2009-06-16 21:15:42 -07:00
memstick
message
mfd mfd: early init for MFD running regulators 2009-06-17 19:41:54 +02:00
misc gru: copyright fixes 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
mmc
mtd Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6 2009-06-17 09:48:30 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2009-06-17 09:50:44 -07:00
nubus
of
oprofile
parisc
parport
pci Fix pci_claim_resource 2009-06-17 14:04:42 -07:00
pcmcia Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
platform
pnp
power
pps LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
ps3
rapidio
regulator
rtc rtc-ds1553: drop IRQF_SHARED 2009-06-18 13:03:43 -07:00
s390 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2009-06-17 09:50:44 -07:00
sbus
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2009-06-17 09:50:44 -07:00
serial Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2009-06-16 12:57:37 -07:00
sh
sn
spi spi: fix spi_write_then_read() comment 2009-06-18 13:03:42 -07:00
ssb
staging Staging: Add octeon-ethernet driver files. 2009-06-17 11:06:30 +01:00
tc
telephony
thermal
uio
usb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 2009-06-16 13:06:10 -07:00
uwb
video Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
virtio
vlynq drivers: add support for the TI VLYNQ bus 2009-06-16 19:47:52 -07:00
w1 w1-gpio: add external pull-up enable callback 2009-06-18 13:03:58 -07:00
watchdog
xen
zorro
Kconfig LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
Makefile LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00