Which interfaces are important today to define a time-hardware snap interface

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Wed Aug 24 17:26:56 UTC 2016


Yo Christian!

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:29:31 +0200
Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:

> I tried to summarize what an "time-hardware" interface for snappy
> - Do we also need like /dev/ttyS%d+ ?

A lot of procedures on the internet refer to /dev/ttyS%d, /dev/ttyUSB%d,
and /dev/ttyAMA%d

So for generatlity those would be nice.

> To be honest - I personally only ever "met" /dev/pps, but then i'm no
> NTP expert so please advise what is would be reasonable to define
> such an interface.

/dev/pps%d is often autogenerated when needed by gpsd or ldattach.  So
many NTPP users never know it is there.

RGDS
GARY
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