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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
index 00b44f4ccf03..bc4205d2fc3c 100644
--- a/drivers/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/Makefile
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_INPUT)		+= input/
 obj-$(CONFIG_I2O)               += message/
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_LIB)           += rtc/
 obj-y                           += i2c/ media/
+obj-$(CONFIG_PPS)               += pps/
 obj-$(CONFIG_W1)                += w1/
 obj-$(CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY)      += power/
 obj-$(CONFIG_HWMON)             += hwmon/