PPS documentation

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 17:08:15 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> > I thought we had killed it.  If not it needs to be killed.  It
> > should never be used.  
> 
> No, it's still here, if you mean hardpps amd RFC1589 support.  Though
> I didn't know that until today - it's amost completely undocumented,
> you have notice the hint dropped by the meaning of flag3 and then read
> source code to get any idea what's going on.

Any reason not to kill it off?  With the move to tickless Linux I can't
see the kernel caring about a 22 year old interface that has no added
value, is rarely used and incompatible with the future.

RGDS
GARY
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