Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:35:48 +0200
From: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:17:50PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:04:18PM +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> 
> Hi Rodolfo,

Hi! :)

>  > here my last patch for PPS support.
>  > 
>  > Please, let me know if I have something to do for kernel inclusion.
> 
> Thanks for trying to get this merged, we've had a few users asking
> us to support this in the Fedora kernel.

This sounds good! ;)

> >From a quick look through, it doesn't look too bad.
> A couple of obvious things that jumped out..
> 
> * The example program in the Documentation dir.
>   There was some discussion recently about moving away 
>   from doing this, and instead moving code to the samples/ dir
>   (or including it in util-linux instead if applicable).

Mmm, I just consider them as simple userland examples. They don't need
to manage PPS devices.

I can remove them from Documentation/pps/, no problems, but in my
modest opinion they are just documentation. :)

>  > +    static struct pps_source_info_s pps_ktimer_info = {
>  > +            name         : "ktimer",
>  > +            path         : "",
>  > +            mode         : PPS_CAPTUREASSERT | PPS_OFFSETASSERT | \
>  > +			   PPS_ECHOASSERT | \
>  > +                           PPS_CANWAIT | PPS_TSFMT_TSPEC,
>  > +            echo         : pps_ktimer_echo,
>  > +            owner        : THIS_MODULE,
>  > +    };
> 
>   should be
>     .name = "ktimer"
>   etc..

Fixed.

>  > +#include <linux/version.h>
> 
> This should be getting included automatically for you.

Fixed.

> On the whole, asides from these (very) minor nits, quite a clean
> submission compared to a lot of new driver submissions to lkml.
> Might want to run it through scripts/checkpatch.pl too to see
> if that picks up any more minor fluff.

Ok!

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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