linux/drivers/ptp/Kconfig
Richard Cochran d94ba80ebb ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks.
This patch adds an infrastructure for hardware clocks that implement
IEEE 1588, the Precision Time Protocol (PTP). A class driver offers a
registration method to particular hardware clock drivers. Each clock is
presented as a standard POSIX clock.

The ancillary clock features are exposed in two different ways, via
the sysfs and by a character device.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-05-23 13:01:00 -07:00

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# PTP clock support configuration
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menu "PTP clock support"
comment "Enable Device Drivers -> PPS to see the PTP clock options."
depends on PPS=n
config PTP_1588_CLOCK
tristate "PTP clock support"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
depends on PPS
help
The IEEE 1588 standard defines a method to precisely
synchronize distributed clocks over Ethernet networks. The
standard defines a Precision Time Protocol (PTP), which can
be used to achieve synchronization within a few dozen
microseconds. In addition, with the help of special hardware
time stamping units, it can be possible to achieve
synchronization to within a few hundred nanoseconds.
This driver adds support for PTP clocks as character
devices. If you want to use a PTP clock, then you should
also enable at least one clock driver as well.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called ptp.
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