linux-hardened/drivers
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 Merge branch 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2009-06-16 11:24:23 -07:00
amba
ata Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
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 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -07:00
cdrom block: Use accessor functions for queue limits 2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
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 trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names 2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
cpufreq [CPUFREQ] Only set sampling_rate_max deprecated, sampling_rate_min is useful 2009-06-15 11:49:41 -04:00
cpuidle
crypto Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
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 Driver Core: usb: add nodename support for usb drivers. 2009-06-15 21:30:25 -07:00
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 ide: remove driver_data direct access of struct device 2009-06-15 21:30:26 -07:00
idle i7300_idle: allow testing on i5000-series hardware w/o re-compile 2009-05-28 20:52:40 -04:00
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 ieee802154: fix kconfig bool/tristate muckup 2009-06-13 23:36:29 -07:00
infiniband infiniband: ehca: remove driver_data direct access of struct device 2009-06-15 21:30:27 -07:00
input Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
isdn Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -07:00
leds [ARM] S3C24XX: GPIO: Move gpio functions out of <mach/hardware.h> 2009-05-18 16:25:40 +01:00
lguest Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest 2009-06-12 09:32:26 -07:00
macintosh Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging 2009-06-16 11:29:17 -07:00
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 block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size 2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
message Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -07:00
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 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc 2009-06-14 13:46:57 -07:00
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 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-06-15 09:40:05 -07:00
oprofile oprofile: fix cpu buffer size 2009-05-07 17:28:59 +02:00
parisc parisc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
parport parport: remove driver_data direct access of struct device 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
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 sony-laptop: no need to unblock rfkill on load 2009-06-10 13:28:37 -04:00
pnp Merge branch 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 2009-06-12 18:09:18 -07:00
power
pps LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
ps3 drivers/ps3: Add missing annotations 2009-06-15 16:47:25 +10:00
rapidio rapidio: fix section mismatch warnings 2009-05-19 00:50:41 -05:00
regulator regulator/max1586: fix V3 gain calculation integer overflow 2009-06-15 11:18:27 +01:00
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 openprom: Squelch useless GCC warning. 2009-06-16 04:56:57 -07:00
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 sh: Tie sparseirq in to Kconfig. 2009-06-11 10:33:09 +03:00
sn
spi spi: fix spi_write_then_read() comment 2009-06-18 13:03:42 -07:00
ssb SSB: BCM47xx: Export ssb_watchdog_timer_set 2009-06-08 16:57:50 +01:00
staging Staging: Add octeon-ethernet driver files. 2009-06-17 11:06:30 +01:00
tc
telephony
thermal thermal: remove driver_data direct access of struct device 2009-06-15 21:30:27 -07:00
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 virtio: enhance id_matching for virtio drivers 2009-06-12 22:16:40 +09:30
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 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
xen PM core: rename suspend and resume functions 2009-06-12 21:32:31 +02:00
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