[ntp:hackers] NEMA refclock, PPS and Solaris.

John Hay jhay at meraka.org.za
Sat May 2 10:55:33 UTC 2009


On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:05:27AM +0000, Dave Hart wrote:
> http://bugs.ntp.org/1173
> 
> I filed a bug on the NMEA PPSAPI version deficiency Brian uncovered.
> The one-line fix to refclock_nmea.c is:
> 
>        memset(&up->pps_params, 0, sizeof(pps_params_t));
> +       up->pps_params.api_version = PPS_API_VERS_1;

>From my reading of the RFC I understood that that field is read-only.
Its purpose is for the kernel or whatever implements the API to report
the API version that it implements.

While we can add this, I do think a kernel that require this field
to be filled in is wrong.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org


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