PPS generators are special hardware which are able to produce PPS (Pulse Per Second) signals. This RFC patchset adds the class pps-gen to the kernel in order to get feedback useful to produce a well-thought-out and well-defined interface for these devices. Rodolfo Giometti (3): drivers pps: add PPS generators support Documentation pps.rst: add PPS generators documentation Documentation ABI: add PPS generators documentaion Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-pps-gen | 44 ++++ Documentation/driver-api/pps.rst | 40 ++++ drivers/pps/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/pps/generators/Kconfig | 19 +- drivers/pps/generators/Makefile | 4 + drivers/pps/generators/pps_gen-dummy.c | 83 +++++++ drivers/pps/generators/pps_gen.c | 283 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/pps/generators/sysfs.c | 89 ++++++++ include/linux/pps_gen_kernel.h | 57 +++++ include/uapi/linux/pps_gen.h | 35 +++ 10 files changed, 655 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-pps-gen create mode 100644 drivers/pps/generators/pps_gen-dummy.c create mode 100644 drivers/pps/generators/pps_gen.c create mode 100644 drivers/pps/generators/sysfs.c create mode 100644 include/linux/pps_gen_kernel.h create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/pps_gen.h -- 2.34.1