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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"H . Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] gnss: add new GNSS subsystem
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:52:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180531085242.GE3259@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180530143822.lvtwjvbqe7gvbvgq@localhost>

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 07:38:22AM -0700, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:32:34PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Another possible extension is to add generic 1PPS support.
> 
> There are two possibilities to consider.
> 
> 1. If the PPS causes an interrupt, then it should hook into the PPS
>    subsystem.

Registering a PPS child device is what I had in mind for this.

> 2. If the PPS is a HW signal routed for example to the input pin of a
>    MAC based PTP Hardware Clock (PHC), then it would make sense to
>    model the GNSS device as a PHC as well.  This PHC would be readable
>    but not writable, and more importantly it would offer an output
>    signal.  Then user space could use the existing interfaces to
>    dial the PPS signal from one device the another.

Ok.

> (Come to think of it, modeling the GNSS as PHC would also give you the
> interface for #1 as well.)

Thanks
Johan

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-31  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-30 10:32 [PATCH v2 0/8] gnss: add new GNSS subsystem Johan Hovold
2018-05-30 10:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] gnss: add GNSS receiver subsystem Johan Hovold
2018-05-30 10:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] dt-bindings: add generic gnss binding Johan Hovold
2018-05-30 10:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] gnss: add generic serial driver Johan Hovold
2018-05-30 10:32 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] dt-bindings: gnss: add u-blox binding Johan Hovold
2018-05-31  3:58   ` Rob Herring
2018-05-31  8:22     ` Johan Hovold
2018-05-31 13:55       ` Rob Herring
2018-05-31 14:34         ` Johan Hovold
2018-05-31 15:58           ` Rob Herring
2018-06-01  8:15             ` Johan Hovold
2018-05-30 10:32 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] gnss: add driver for u-blox receivers Johan Hovold
2018-06-02  6:07   ` kbuild test robot
2018-06-02  6:07   ` [RFC PATCH] gnss: ubx_gserial_ops can be static kbuild test robot
2018-05-30 10:32 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] dt-bindings: gnss: add sirfstar binding Johan Hovold
2018-05-30 10:32 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] gnss: add driver for sirfstar-based receivers Johan Hovold
2018-05-30 10:32 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] gnss: add device type support Johan Hovold
2018-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] gnss: add new GNSS subsystem Richard Cochran
2018-05-31  8:52   ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2018-05-31  9:52     ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2018-05-31 11:47       ` Johan Hovold
2018-05-31 13:33         ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2018-05-31 13:37           ` Johan Hovold

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