From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932196AbWFFOng (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:43:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932200AbWFFOng (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:43:36 -0400 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:29928 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932196AbWFFOnf (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:43:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:43:34 -0400 To: Heiko Gerstung Cc: Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Backport of a 2.6.x USB driver to 2.4.32 - help needed Message-ID: <20060606144334.GA7859@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <44854F74.50406@meinberg.de> <9a8748490606060423t102384f4m626b4366898ce9cd@mail.gmail.com> <448569CE.1020906@meinberg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <448569CE.1020906@meinberg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Lennart Sorensen X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:41:02PM +0200, Heiko Gerstung wrote: > Yes, but unfortunately I have no chance to do this and therefore I rely > on others to do this. Well, the same applies to [me] and [kernel > drivers], but I hoped that it might be easier to try and backport one > driver instead of trying to improve other people's code (maybe that is > what OPC stands for :-)), especially when this code has a much larger > impact on several parts of the kernel. Which part of PPS doesn't work on 2.6 if you have the PPS-kit-light installed? There is a version for 2.6.15 around, which applies to 2.6.16 with minimal fixing. Only problem I found so far with the code was that it breaks the serial console on my system, but that was easy to fix. I still have to test it though since my serial port has the CD line stuck high at the moment until I can get the board fixed, so testing is a bit tricky. I know I have run a gps receiver with PPS on the CD line under 2.6.8 using PPS-kit-light, and it worked rather well. Len Sorensen