drivers pps: add PPS generators support
authorRodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Fri, 8 Nov 2024 07:31:12 +0000 (08:31 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 8 Jan 2025 12:18:09 +0000 (13:18 +0100)
commit86b525bed2758878e788c9fb6b8fb281fd61bdb0
tree6e0a31b7ca0e963f53fe9d3b156beec97106cf0f
parentc79a39dc8d060b9e64e8b0fa9d245d44befeefbe
drivers pps: add PPS generators support

Sometimes one needs to be able not only to catch PPS signals but to
produce them also. For example, running a distributed simulation,
which requires computers' clock to be synchronized very tightly.

This patch adds PPS generators class in order to have a well-defined
interface for these devices.

Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108073115.759039-2-giometti@enneenne.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
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drivers/pps/Makefile
drivers/pps/generators/Kconfig
drivers/pps/generators/Makefile
drivers/pps/generators/pps_gen.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/pps/generators/sysfs.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/pps_gen_kernel.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/uapi/linux/pps_gen.h [new file with mode: 0644]