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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