Removing the worst cruft

[Mark Atwood]

Good point.

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 8:13 PM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > > Can the palisade/trimble driver be replaced with a parse driver?
> >
> > I doubt it, but I'm far from familiar with the parse driver.
> >
> > Based on Eric's previous comments, the parse driver handles devices that
> > provide the time in an easy to parse format.  TSIP might fit that if all
> goes
> > well.
> >
> > But there are many variations of TSIP.  One covers reversing the normal
> PPS
> > operation.  Instead of needing kernel support to time stamp the PPS
> pulse,
> > you send it a pulse by flapping one of the modem control signals and it
> tells
> > you the time that happened.
> >
> > My vote would be to not rock that boat.  There are more important things
> to
> > work on.
>
> I concur with this.
>
> While I like the idea of replacing as many as possible of the
> remaining legacy drives with modes of the generic driver, an absolute
> requirement for this is that we be able to live-test with the equipment.
> Obviously we're not set up for that yet.
> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
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