pps: LinuxPPS clients support

Each PPS source can be registered/deregistered into the system by using
special modules called "clients".  They simply define the PPS sources'
attributes and implement the time signal registration mechanism.

This patch adds a special directory for such clients and adds a dummy
client that can be useful to test system integrity on real systems.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/pps/clients/Kconfig b/drivers/pps/clients/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..43ccd3b644f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/pps/clients/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#
+# PPS clients configuration
+#
+
+if PPS
+
+comment "PPS clients support"
+
+config PPS_CLIENT_KTIMER
+        tristate "Kernel timer client (Testing client, use for debug)"
+        help
+          If you say yes here you get support for a PPS debugging client
+          which uses a kernel timer to generate the PPS signal.
+
+          This driver can also be built as a module.  If so, the module
+          will be called pps-ktimer.
+
+endif