RHEL EPEL 6 garmin lvc-18 ldattach PPS fails

[Skunk Worx]

On 09/17/2011 09:10 PM, Skunk Worx wrote:

> I am trying to use a germin lvc-18 as an ntpd time source, via the PPS /
> NMEA reference drivers, and the pps_core module from the LinuxPPS project.
>
> On my SL6 x86_64 I can't "ldattach PPS /dev/ttyS0". I get a failure, and
> strace shows :
>
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Posting for completion :

This capability wasn't fully integrated into the mainline kernel until 
2.6.34.

Ref :

http://wiki.enneenne.com/index.php/LinuxPPS_installation

http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.34/drivers/pps/clients/pps-ldisc.c

I'll patch it in.