[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#785665: ntp: support for atom driver not included

[Daniel M. Weeks]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 05:00:50 -0600 Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com> wrote:
> I recommend *against* enabling ATOM support.
> 
> It is much better to use SHM to talk to gpsd. Here are a whole bunch of
> details:
> http://www.catb.org/gpsd/gpsd-time-service-howto.html
> 

Richard,

There is nothing in that document that discourages ATOM. In fact, it
explains KPPS can be stable to +/- 1 uS. Most replies here so far are
talking about using the Raspberry Pi GPIO for KPPS.

Enabling ATOM at build time does not force it on users. As Robin pointed
out, this is only a matter of adding --with-ATOM and then users are free
to use it if they desire.

-- 
Daniel M. Weeks