From eae9d2ba0cfc27a2ad9765f23efb98fb80d80234 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rodolfo Giometti Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:28:37 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg KH Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Kay Sievers Acked-by: Alan Cox Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'MAINTAINERS') diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 5b7a08d88e4f..035df9d26609 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -4577,6 +4577,13 @@ S: Maintained F: drivers/net/pppol2tp.c F: include/linux/if_pppol2tp.h +PPS SUPPORT +P: Rodolfo Giometti +M: giometti@enneenne.com +W: http://wiki.enneenne.com/index.php/LinuxPPS_support +L: linuxpps@ml.enneenne.com (subscribers-only) +S: Maintained + PREEMPTIBLE KERNEL P: Robert Love M: rml@tech9.net -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522