On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 06:31:33PM +0100, Viliam Lejcik wrote:
> Currently UTC offset is defined as a constant - CURRENT_UTC_OFFSET, and if
> a leap second is added, that constant is no longer valid. Ptp4l was
> updated to read the UTC offset from configuration instead.

Good idea.

> @@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ static void clock_update_slave(struct clock *c)
>       if (!(c->tds.flags & PTP_TIMESCALE)) {
>               pr_warning("foreign master not using PTP timescale");
>       }
> -     if (c->tds.currentUtcOffset < CURRENT_UTC_OFFSET) {
> +     if (c->tds.currentUtcOffset < config_get_int(c->config, NULL, 
> "utc_offset")) {

Would it make sense to add a new field to the clock structure instead
of calling config_get_int() every time the fallback offset is needed?

> +++ b/ptp4l.8
> @@ -327,6 +327,10 @@ The default is 0xFFFF.
>  The domain attribute of the local clock.
>  The default is 0.
>  .TP
> +.B utc_offset
> +The current number of leap seconds.
> +The default is 37.

This should probably say it's the offset between TAI and UTC. The
actual number of leap seconds is smaller by 10 and this could be
confusing.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

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