On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:23:48AM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> I'm not familiar with SyncE. What does this mean for the PHC device?
> The frequency is automatically corrected by the driver or the device
> itself and the correction is visible in the timex structure from
> clock_adjtime() or that the apparent frequency offset is 0?

The frequency is locked in hardware from the link partner's transmit
clock.   It is not visible in timex, but you do measure zero frequency
offset using the PTP.
 
> Hm, so this effectively disables the servo and the only correction of
> the clock is step when the threshold is reached?

Yes.

> I'm wondering if this could be done as a servo option or a completely
> new servo.

Could be a new servo... I'll think about it.

Thanks,
Richard

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