Bug#595717: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: please enable PPS_CLIENT_LDISC and PPS_CLIENT_KTIMER)

[Robert Edmonds <edmonds@debian.org>]

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> >     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.
> 
> I have not enabled this as it's a debug option only.

my understanding is that this option is for debugging userspace
applications which use the kernel PPS interface.  not for debugging the
kernel PPS implementation.

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Robert Edmonds
edmonds@debian.org