Re: [gpsd-dev] Meaning of negative PPS offset?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> Yes, and I see why that patch broke the PPS under certain conditions.
> You may have improved it, but it is still problematic and will result
> in negative (non-sensical) offsets.
> 
> > It had an error which I fixed.  After the fix,  I lived-tested it
> > with the GR-601W and it seems to work.
> 
> Yes, the error is only under certain conditions.  I'm still lookong
> at the code, but the wrong timestamp is used.  It shuold be the
> time stamp when the NMEA was detected, not the time the NMEA stamp
> says it was.  That creates a race.

OK.  Feel free to fix it.

> > You mentioned in a previous mail that autobauding is failing for
> > you. I dimly recall that you've had this problem before and it was a
> > local config issue.  That code has been stable/working for a long
> > time. 
> 
> I'm not ready to report on that.  Just that something odd is happening to
> me.  Something that did not happen in the spring.  Something that is
> only happening on some of my test setups.

I hate bugs like that. :-) 

I'll double-check that autobauding is still working here. I'll be
extremely surprised if isn't - AFAIK nobody has touched the code 
around that in a *long* time.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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