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Re: [PATCH 8/8] LinuxPPS: pps_gen_parport: Add check for bad clocksource.

From Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 8/8] LinuxPPS: pps_gen_parport: Add check for bad clocksource.
Date 2017-03-04 14:30 +0100
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On 03/04/17 10:19, Alexander Gerasiov wrote:
> Hello Rodolfo,
>
> I should say, that I found this solution is not the best. For example on
> high speed PCs (I think over 3GHz) 5 iteration is not enough and module
> stops working after several hours. That makes it not user-friendly,
> cause user had to calibrate and set failure_iterations manually.
>
> It would be better to use pre-measured loops_per_jiffy (from delay.h)
> some way.

I see... however I cannot test the patch so if you tried it and you noticed 
these issues we should consider to add it but with the experimental warning?

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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Re: [PATCH 8/8] LinuxPPS: pps_gen_parport: Add check for bad  clocksource. Alexander Gerasiov <gq@cs.msu.su> - 2017-03-04 10:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 8/8] LinuxPPS: pps_gen_parport: Add check for bad  clocksource. Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> - 2017-03-04 14:30 +0100

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