From: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
To: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pps: Add support for read operations and return a useful value in poll
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 10:11:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150401081133.GA4384@enneenne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427837482-2841-1-git-send-email-christian.riesch@omicron.at>
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:31:22PM +0200, Christian Riesch wrote:
> The PPS_FETCH ioctl in drivers/pps/pps.c blocks until a new PPS event
> occurs, then returns the time stamp data. While this is fine for
> lots of applications, sometimes it would be nice if the poll system
> call and a subsequent read could be used to obtain the pps data.
Nak. The read syscall can't be forced to return fix amount of
data.
Use a dedicated ioctl instead.
Ciao,
Rodolfo
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-31 21:31 Christian Riesch
2015-04-01 8:11 ` Rodolfo Giometti [this message]
2015-04-01 11:56 ` Christian Riesch
2015-04-01 12:01 ` Christian Riesch
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